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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 19–52.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Whitney A. Peoples Abstract This essay seeks to explore the sociopolitical objectives of hip-hop feminism, to address the generational ruptures that those very objectives reveal, and to explore the practical and theoretical qualities that second- and third-wave generations of black feminists have...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 353–381.
Published: 01 March 2017
... to raise armies need to persuade mothers to offer up their sons to military service, women will be encouraged to see their maternal duty as a SELINAMAKANA MOTHERHOOD ASACTIVISM IN THE ANGOLAN PEOPLE'S WAR 355 public duty and to release their sons (and sometimes daughters) for some higher good" (2004, n...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 188–212.
Published: 01 March 2002
... of a small American town are accustomed to all kinds of work, they are also interested in education and learning. A small town of a thousand people usually has a public library which stocks not inferior books but scientific, historical, legal, and theological volumes written by highly learned men like Huxley...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 174–182.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Destiny Wiley-Yancy Abstract The Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Organization’s (AAPSO) Presidium Committee on Women met to prepare for the United Nations Conference on Women in Nairobi, Kenya. The committee aimed to tackle the impact of colonialism and imperialism and the ways...
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in Shari’a Barbie’s Afterlives: Apprehending Racialized and Sexualized Islam through Social Media
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Published: 01 October 2021
Figure 2. A spoof meme about “Islamic donuts” used for propaganda, which was evidently believable to some people.
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 373–381.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Chinyere Okafor Abstract This paper aims to uplift a story by a queer Black woman activist residing in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Using various narrative analysis techniques, this paper also explores the tales told to understand how queer people in the Caribbean create a home of recognition...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 304–331.
Published: 01 October 2019
... the late 1960s and 1970s, Mink challenged the use of the Pacific lands, waters, and peoples as sites of military experimentation, subject to nuclear and chemical testing as well as war games. Mink’s political worldview, shaped by her experiences and understanding of the interconnectedness between human...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 250–270.
Published: 01 October 2020
... male power structure intact, some black women were the potential beneficiaries of jurists’ racial paternalism ethos. While whites imagined themselves as controlling paternalistic exchanges with blacks, black people engaged whites as conscious actors drawing on a keen understanding of white people’s...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2009
... knowledge) and ideological (the interconnectedness of people, the earth, and culture) constructs enable communal paradigms rather than individualistic or gendered identities to rise to the fore. Given these parameters, how can the testimonies of native women's lives as artists inform debates of indigenous...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 94–120.
Published: 01 June 2016
... practice of intersectionality, I argue that black women who organize as blacks, women, and poor people provide key insights into how intersectionality is mobilized for social and poltical change. Furthemore, the ethnographic focus on black women's activism illustrates the ways in which grassroots politics...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 46–55.
Published: 01 September 2016
... dehumanizing effects primarily on racialized populations, poor people, and women, and locates these groups in relation to the rise of the world-system. Likewise, it identifies the theoretical contributions made by Afrodescendant Latin American women to decolonial thought, not only in relation to the historical...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 53–77.
Published: 01 September 2015
... liberalism,” one that must now reassert its authority at home and abroad. To grasp what is at stake in calls for the reinvigoration of an active, muscular liberalism as simultaneously the indigenous personality and identity of not only the British “people” and nation, but indelibly of the West, they must...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 148–163.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of the people on the border imitate an incomplete reality and, as a result, the alienation of these groups by the pre-established norms of both surrounding societies. This article reconsiders the border experience of the Amazon and Texas with the purpose of comparing and recuperating pieces of the inhabitant's...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 164–188.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., and Condoleezza Rice on the War on Terror and Afghan and Iraqi women. In contrast, this article draws on the photographic counter-narratives, like “the girl in the blue bra,” that transnational feminists circulated through social media during the people's uprising in Egypt beginning in 2011 to evoke powerful...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 189–204.
Published: 01 December 2016
... disproportionately affects people of color and the poor. The author argues that justice cannot be had while ignoring environmental racism, as unjust environmental conditions devalue Black bodies and the potential of Black and poor children worldwide. The second half of this piece contains a lesson plan for teachers...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 412–434.
Published: 01 March 2017
... that takes place in the absence of physical migration. It builds on and beyond the extant scholarship on Jamaican patwah poet Louise Bennett Coverley, widely known a Miss Lou, by indexing how her speakers’ references to places and events outside Jamaica and to non-Jamaican people (routes) constitute a core...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 184–213.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Chamindra Weerawardhana Abstract In the interdisciplinary research area of Transgender studies, Transfeminist theoretical perspectives have witnessed much innovation over the last few years. This has culminated in an increase in the acknowledgement of Transgender people in the West, as well...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 144–156.
Published: 01 September 2018
... of Science fiction. From its mixed literary heritage to its inability to be summarized by a catchall definition to its endlessly elastic point of view, Science fiction is uniquely suited to the herculean task of allowing our species to experience, understand, and accept the varied ways in which people...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 157–160.
Published: 01 September 2018
... and conversation regarding the treatment of people of color by dominant cultures in media and elements of fashionable consumption. Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 LEILANI RANIA GANSER How to WriteaboutHawai'i: A Guideto the Handlingof IndigenousCharactersI, nspired byBinyavangaWainaina's "Howto...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 39–48.
Published: 01 September 2018
... people who are cast as social failures. Recognizing this racial/racist logic as one that allows white America to absolve itself from its central role in maintaining structural oppression, the author argues for the continued calling out of anti-blackness in all spaces—public and intimate, white and non...
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