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... politics and reductive historical categories have cordoned Jones off from her rightful place in our intellectual and political frameworks. I also focus on Jones here because she invokes Tubman as part of her own journey. For example, she references Tubman when delineating her own views about black women's...

... exploitative colonial economy. Jamaica Kincaid’s essays in A Small Place dramatize the competing narratives of vacation as happiness object and misery-causing activities within the framework of the structure of terror. Many critics read differences of race and class developed through figures of the tourist...

... is rarely referenced, even nominally, in most feminist and Black feminist political genealogies. As with Tubman, fragmented politics and reductive historical categories have cordoned Jones off from her rightful place in our intellectual and political frameworks. I also focus on Jones here because she...

... was THE POLITICS OF PLACE AND RACISM IN AUSTRALIA 195 unavoidably through institutionalized racism. I had no real sense of what was "women's business" for them and understood that it was quite different from the women's rights with which I identified. 3 I was ignorant about Aboriginal history's sense of time, use...

... is not invested in CON UN PIE A CADA LADO/WITH A FOOT IN EACH PLACE 159 fiction for fiction's sake but is instead an intentional expression of women's values, realities, spiritualities, sense ofjustice, and agency.2 For as Black feminist literary critic, Barbara Christian, states That literature is an integral...

...Kwame Dixon Place,Languagea, nd Identityin Afro-CostaRicanLiterature.By Dorothy E. Mosby. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003. xiii, 264 pp .Cloth, $34.95. Afro-Hispanic literary productions and works that configure or address the image of Afro-Latin people within narrative texts...

... Rico; and Thessaloniki, Greece, in that order! And I have traveled to many more places around the globe through virtual queries and author contributions from various sites of the African continent, Eastern Europe, the Caribbean, Canada, and South Asia. I want to thank the many individuals who entrusted...

...Ashley N. Patterson; Arianna Howard; Valerie Kinloch Abstract The topic grounded in this essay was inspired by the interactions had and stories shared by an intergenerational group of Black women (including the three coauthors) who termed their regular meetings “the Black Women’s Gathering Place...

... that made it possible in the first place to mark out a place for a Sara Baartman (the so-called Hottentot Venus) in nascent capitalist relations and forces of production and in the early colonization of southern Africa. In their nonreferential literary representations of twentieth-century neoliberalism...

... 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...

...Chandra Frank Abstract This essay draws on the feminist and queer organization Flamboyant, the first and only nationwide Black and migrant women–run meeting place, active in the 1980s in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After five years, the collective was forced to leave their space due to a lack...

... will encourage more women of color and other marginalized groups to become more involved in the political movement for reproductive freedom. Using narrative analysis, this essay explores what reproductive justice means to this movement, while placing it within the political, social, and cultural context from...

... in various genres that they thought best captured their voices, their feelings. Thus, the words recounted here are in the form of personal essays, poems, photographs, and even a piece of fiction. Given Haiti's place in the global racial imaginary, and since we are all only too aware of its historical...

... eroticism. This essay looks at the nuances in Third Girl from the Left by placing the novel in the context of its explicit movie allusions as well as films with which the text is in tacit dialogue. Copyright © 2014 by Smith College 2014 AYESHA K. HARDISON WhereAuthorand AuteurMeet: Genret,heErotica...

... for the construction of an identity as activists in Black women's movements and for building the movement as a place for protagonism and for experiences that successfully challenge the powers that be. Furthermore, the article explores Brazilian feminist discourse, as it is recreated through the specific demands...

... of technology, but also of the physical transnational flows of Afro-descendant women and their ideas at conferences, meeting one another, and finding common ground through political activism and poetry. Most significant is the meaning women attach to the poem and the places where it is interpreted, recited...

... care, as well as a home and a place of dignity in the world's history to millions of Black/Afro-descendent women. We need to conspire to secure access to adequate care and treatment to Black/Afro-descendent women living with HIV, and to preserve the land of deracinated women. Black feminism and all...

... in Brazil or Cuba to author a fictional novel or testimonial autobiography. Although separated by time and place, they were united in their projection of a black racial pride that transcended the racist marginalization inflicted upon them and their communities. Each was an unacknowledged theorist of race...

... as Villa Ki-Yi, a haven for both well-established and budding artists in need of a place to refine their art within a supportive community. Over the years, goals for the center evolved as Liking sought to fight social injustice through combining activism and the arts. The Village Ki-yi, as it is known...

...—should be recognized as survival strategies for African diasporic subjects. At the Full depathologizes these strategies, offering them a place within the neo-archive and incorporating them into the history of black life in the New World. Copyright © 2016 Smith College 2016 LAUREN J. GANTZ Archiving...