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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 297–322.
Published: 01 October 2023
... focus on Bengali Brahmin regional history to show that writing castelessly is founded on material structures of caste. I connect histories of caste power—Brahminical control over knowledge, land, labor, and political representation—to education. In Bengal, in periods of intense flux and anti-colonial...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 103–128.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., the increased education ofwomen, and the greater availability of household technology, Brazilian cultural politics continues to be greatly pervaded by authoritarian practices, a contempt for manual labor, and demeaning representations of poor and black people. Probably the greatest trace left by slavery...
View articletitled, The Dirty Body that Cleans: <span class="search-highlight">Representations</span> of Domestic Workers in Brazilian Common Sense
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 207–235.
Published: 01 April 2022
... and media representation in the early twenty-first century. According to Thompson and Feminista Jones, #Blackgirlmagic articulates the possibilities that Black women create despite the systemic inequalities they face. As the hashtag’s political message was reified through social media practices...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 261–292.
Published: 01 September 2008
... discourses have been mediated by the hybrid medium of hip-hop porn, and pose questions as to what extent the representations and labor politics of this emergent genre expand the tradition offetishizing black sexuality as a site of desire and disgust, expression and exploitation, subjectivity...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 53–73.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of third-wave organizations like Sista II Sista, and for the work of spoken-word artists like Sarah Jones and Suheir Hammad, all of whom continue to articulate a feminist politics and to challenge popular representations of women of color. A Black queer female sexuality is also significant at a time when...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 1–31.
Published: 01 March 2008
... women of color subgenre, this essay steps away from the framework of postfeminism that so dominates academic and popular discussions of chick lit, and instead uses critical race and transnational feminist critique to foreground questions of race, nation, empire, and political economy. Beginning...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 169–195.
Published: 01 September 2014
... subjectivities of black women during slavery as part of an emancipatory politics. Using “The Tubman Sextape” as a point of entry, this essay examines how to create erotic maps of Tubman, and black women during slavery more broadly by engaging the historiography of slavery, popular representations of bondage...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 148–163.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Lily Martinez Abstract Borders have been commonly popularized as a space where illegal acts and perversions occur. As an area of political instability and representative of constant corporal movement, they are imagined as the impossibility of cultural development. Typical representations...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 383–400.
Published: 01 November 2018
... feminist scholarship by detailing how these female artists present challenges to patriarchy, gender norms, and the politics of respectability. Through their work, female MCs construct representations of African women that are complex and multidimensional. This essay presents an analysis of the major...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 41–62.
Published: 01 April 2019
... that claim control over the access and representation of Chicana/o histories and imagine queer futures through queer archives and archival practices. The affective and political possibilities of these queer archives further discourse of the interdisciplinary archival turn. U.S. multiethnic literature...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 52–81.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Ruthann Lee Abstract Contemporary feminist scholars problematize the difficulties of creating meaningful political alliances between Indigenous and diasporic communities in settler states such as Canada and the United States. This essay uses a relational framework to trace how two feminist artists...
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View articletitled, Honoring the Ancestors and Creator: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and the <span class="search-highlight">Politics</span> of Spiritual Relationality in Tannis Nielsen’s A Creation and Rosa Sungjoo Park’s Forgotten Dreams
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2021
... become vice president of the United States. Even as we acknowledge the undeniable limits of representation politics, Meridians also recognizes the psychically and spiritualy significant importance of this win for women, especially women of color, Black women, and South Asian women. Serendipitously...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 237–248.
Published: 01 March 2002
... of political representation. Some of the persistent problems in transnational organizing were reflected at the WCAR in general, and the women's forums in particular, as conference dynamics often reproduced North/South hierarchies and marginalized people on the basis of their linguistic backgrounds. Bridges...
View articletitled, Intersectionality in an Era of GlobalizationThe Implications of the un World Conference against Racism for Transnational Feminist Practices—A Conference Report
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 90–126.
Published: 01 April 2021
... by the egotistic and revengeful forces of a violent, patriarchal world. Second, their suicides powerfully unveil and castigate the exclusivist politics of men at home and in public. And third, the performance of the suicides and the formal strategies of cinematic representation— especially cinematography and mise...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 94–114.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of the first Muslim women’s organization in Spain, the Committee of Muslim Women. Female activism was thus not only about fighting for citizenship; it also placed gender inequality itself at the center of the struggle for political representation.” According to media news that covered the event, the spectacle...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 340–369.
Published: 01 October 2021
... June , and Daskalova Krassimira , 106 – 20 . New York : Routledge . American Council on Education . 1956 . “ Biographical Data on Mrs. Shamsun Nahar Mahmud .” Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College Library. Ansari Sarah . 2009 . “ Polygamy, Purdah, and Political Representation...
View articletitled, Between Orientalism and Anti-Muslim Racism: Pakistan, the United States, and Women’s Transnational Activism in the Early Cold War Interlude
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 63–93.
Published: 01 April 2019
... the interpretive impasses she encounters as the multiple images and stories crowd out any singular narrated history. 3 Like her film, Fleming’s graphic memoir propels readers to experience the discursive, representational, and political contradictions confronting Chinese subjects. The illustrated memoir...
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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 180–182.
Published: 01 March 2005
... by the political need to construct representational identity. Kang's work reflects a larger trend in Asian American studies that revisits its short but politically redolent disciplinary history, attempting to address the consequences of creating an institutionally sanctioned, legible, cohesive object of study...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 1–38.
Published: 01 March 2004
... a universalized representation of victimization over the historical and political contexts that helped constitute these conditions. News coverage of the conflicts in the Balkans, especially reports on ethnic cleansing, continues this tradition of bearing witness to war by turning the camera's gaze to its victims...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 236–260.
Published: 01 September 2008
... to the series of articles published by Essencet,his essay engages the politics of black women's respectability as it played out in the rhetorical space created by the Essencescribble boards. I am particularly interested in the discursive representation constructed by black women in opposition to dominant...
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