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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 25–45.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Dorothy E. Mosby Abstract This paper is both a personal reflection and critical analysis of the circulation of the poem “Rotundamente negra” by Afro-Costa Rican poet and cultural activist Shirley Campbell among Afro-descendant women in Latin America. As I heard various recitations...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 7–15.
Published: 01 September 2018
... hoy día siendo mujer, negra, activista o disidente, ser migrante o tener afinidades a migrantes haitianos es razón de vivir con miedo, miedo a la policía que atropella y te crea un expediente falso, miedo a los grupos ultra nacionalistas que amenazan con violencia, miedo a que al rechazar a alguien...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 101–122.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Alana Perez; Pamela Fernandez Abstract This archive fiction recounts an insurrection led by Carlota in Cuba. Lázaro E. Cosme’s Voces Negras: Desde la plantación holds a chapter detailing the legend of Carlota of the Triunvirato sugar mill in the province of Matanzas, Cuba. The author uses...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 513–521.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Claudia Ferreira; Adriana Medeiros Abstract These three brief pieces formed part of a two-part special issue (vol. 4, nos. 1 and 2, 2016) on Afro-Descendant Feminisms in Latin America. The unprecedented nationwide mobilizational process that culminated in the first-ever Marcha das Mulheres Negras...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 508–512.
Published: 01 December 2020
... photograph of Dona Tiana (Sebastiana Geralda Ribeiro da Silva), a grassroots activist from the historically Black territory Quilombo Carrapatos da Tabatinga in the state of Minas Gerais, delivering an impassioned speech during the first-ever national Marcha das Mulheres Negras contra o Racismo e...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 389–411.
Published: 01 March 2017
... as an emotional experience tied to labor. For example, one poem byJose Antonio Portuondo, "Rumba de la negra Pancha" (The Rumba of Pancha the BlackWoman), illustrated "The jolly spirit of Pancha, the [blackwasherwoman] who works strenuously all day, but still has the strength to spend all night dancing in revelry...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 30–49.
Published: 01 June 2016
... Bairros, Luiza. 2000. "Lembrando Lelia Gonzalez." In O livrodasaudedasmulhms negras- nossospassosvemdelonge,edited by Jurema Werneck; Maisa Mendon\a, and Evelyn C. White. Rio de Janeiro: Criola/Pallas. Carneiro, Sueli and Tereza Santos. 1985. Mulhernegra. Sao Paulo: Conselho Estadual da Condi\ao Feminina...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 118–129.
Published: 01 September 2016
... elPacfficocolombiano,edited by Arturo Escobar and Alvaro Pedrosa, Bogota: CEREC. 2010. "Mujeres Negras (Sirvientas, Putas, Matronas): Una Aproximacion a La Mujer Negra de Colombia." Juan Martorano's Blog,March 23. http juanmartorano.blogspot.com/2010/03/mujeres-negras-sirvientas-putas.html. Lozano, Betty Ruth...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 121–147.
Published: 01 June 2016
... WOMEN 137 Table r.r - Black Women's Health-focused NGOs Founded in the 1980s and 1990s Organization Name Location Maria Mulher Porto Alegre (RS) Relevant Dates 1987present Geledes Sao Paulo (SP) 1988-1997 Criola Rio de 1992- Janeiro (RJ) present Associa~ao Cultural de Mulheres Negras (ACMUN) Fala Preta...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 155–157.
Published: 01 April 2022
... Italian, forbid his son’s marriage to a Negra in writing that few in town could read. Your parents eloped, snapping sugarcane shafts underfoot, the final crush after snubbing a compulsory harvest. As soon as your mother bore her sole child, wriggling in the heat of a legendary fall, my great...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 103–128.
Published: 01 September 2015
... relations, the supposedly stronger bonds of intimacy and affection ultimately overcame antagonism and oppression. In my view, Tia Nastacia's character, like Freyre's "negras velhas,"rn functions as a symbol of Brazil's myth of racial democracy. As a "member of the family," as many maids are defined...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 158–184.
Published: 01 April 2022
... it, we would fight. There was always this allusion to my blackness, which surprised me: “ Negra, negra, negra ,” “ negra del diablo ,” were some of the words they used most at home . . . “ negra de olla ,” like a cooking pot that is black on the bottom, that’s an insult I heard at home, directed at me...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 185–187.
Published: 01 March 2002
... since. But that night, the night Stella birthed herself, they say she looked round and saw the others' faces and said just as loud for anybody to hear, "I'll eat the clay of my own grave for I'll slave a day in this life or the next for anyman, woman, child or spirit, white, negra, or other." She say...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 June 2016
.... "Enegrecer o feminismo: a situa<;aoda mulher negra na AmericaLatina a partir de uma perspectiva de genera." Paper presented at the International Seminar on Racism , Xenophobia, and Gender in Durban, South Africa,August 27-28, 2001.Accessed May25, 20n. httpwww.unifem.org.br/ sites/700/710/00000690.pdf. 2005...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 414–444.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Figure 8. Lluvia negra , 2007 ...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 1–24.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., that has a substantive component of femicide. In April 25-28, 2016, three Afrocolombian feminist organizationsOtras Negras & Feministas, Colectivo Sentipensar, and Casa Cultural El Chontaduro-organized an international forum titled "Femicides against Racialized Ethnic Groups: Assassination ofWomen...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 207–211.
Published: 01 September 2018
... left a public event in downtown Rio—an event entitled “Young Black Women Who Are Changing Power Structures” (“Jovens Negras Movendo as Estruturas”). 9 What we do know is that Marielle was a threat to many violent, corrupt, and powerful factions—she was herself determined to change power...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 56–70.
Published: 01 September 2016
.... In the 1990s, several organizations, such as UniondeMujeresPuertorriquefias Negras(UMUPUENor Union ofBlack Puerto Rican Women) and Grupo Identidaddela MujerNegra(Black Women's Identity Group), were created focusing on Afrodescendant/black women. These two-as well as Colectivo Ile,even though it appeared later...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 September 2018
...” by Altagracia Jean Joseph, “ El mejor regalo es ser mujer y sobre todo mujer negra .” Joseph is a prominent feminist and human rights activist in the Dominican Republic, where several hundred thousand Dominicans of Haitian descent have been informally and formally deported and denationalized through a series...
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