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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 71–87.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Christen Anne Smith Abstract Black woman, scholar, and visionary—Beatriz Nascimento was a critical figure in Brazil's Black Movement until her untimely death in 1995. Although she published only a handful of articles before she died and left only a few other recorded thoughts, her ideas about...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): v–ix.
Published: 01 September 2016
... feminist movements in the region], the weakening of their political proposals, and the institutionalization of their trajectory." Christen Smith's essay analyzes the manifold philosophical contributions of pioneer Afro-Brazilian activist-intellectual Beatriz de Nascimento, who she considers...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 30–49.
Published: 01 June 2016
... Nascimento, an Afro-Brazilian historian and filmmaker, points out the following in her beautiful article entitled "The Black Woman and Love:" A black woman living in a multiracial society that has as standard of beauty for women the highest degree of"whitening" (from mixed-race women to white women...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 70–75.
Published: 01 June 2016
..., and indigenous women in Brazil. Valdecir Nascimento, core organizer of the national Marcha process and veteran Bahian feminist and Odara coordinator, explained that Black women "gave the term our own meaning, signaling the need for a new civilizational pact." (Group interview with Black feminist organizers...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 508–512.
Published: 01 December 2020
... parts of Latin America, and is also gaining adherents among some Black women theorists, activists, and indigenous women in Brazil. Valdecir Nascimento, core organizer of the national Marcha process and veteran Bahian feminist and Odara coordinator, explained that Black women “gave the term our own...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): v–xi.
Published: 01 June 2016
... organizing was a response to the lack of attention to the intersection of race and gender within the (mostly white, left-identified, hegemonic) feminist movement, as well as within the (male dominated, also left-influenced) black movement. Afro-Brazilian feminists such as Beatriz Nascimento, Lelia Gonzalez...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 94–120.
Published: 01 June 2016
... cities, such as Makota Valdina Pinto in Salvador, have primarily been black women leaders of candomble communities (Nascimento 2008; Perry 2006, 2009). Pinto has been a neighborhood activist since her youth and is one of the city's most outspoken voices against environmental racism, linking the increased...
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Beyond the Flesh: Contemporary Representations of the Black Female Body in Afro-Brazilian Literature
Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 148–176.
Published: 01 June 2016
...) and the "Teatro Experimental do Negro" ["Experimental Black Theater"] (1940s) are iconic examples of organizations that had a featured role in earlier fights against racial discrimination. See Abdias Nascimento's 1982 0 Negro Revoltado; Clovis Maura's 1989 Hist6ria do Negro Brasileiro; and Michael Hnachard's 1998...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 June 2016
... attitudes and actions in self-defense on the part of women. Similarly, for Valdecir Nascimento, early lessons on women's empowerment came from her mother's experiences. From her mother, she learned never to submit "to any man," that she must study first and only later consider marriage, and that her studies...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 121–147.
Published: 01 June 2016
..., and Elisa Larkin Nascimento. 2004. "Paving Paradise: The Road From 'Racial Democracy' to Affirmative Action in Brazil." Journal ofBlackStudies34: 787-816. Meirelles, Zilah and Maria Helena Ruzany. 2009. "O Impacto da Pobreza na Vida <lasMulheres Javens Afrodescendentes e O Risco de DST/AIDS." In Aidse...
