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... exploitation and gender degradation. Female runaways and refugees reasoned that their dual desires could be achieved in Canada, both because slavery had been abolished there via the Imperial Act of 1834 and because Queen Victoria's reign, starting in 1837, gave the impression of greater esteem and rights...

...Lia T. Bascomb Abstract The image of black queens has a rich legacy within African diasporic discourse. This article examines Barbadian singer Alison Hinds's performance as Soca Queen . Hinds's prolific career spans decades. Her fans named her the Queen of Soca and she took on the designation...

...La Vaughn Belle; Jeannette Ehlers [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Smith College 2023 I Am Queen Mary is a transnational public art project created by La Vaughn Belle of the U.S. Virgin Islands and Jeannette Ehlers of Denmark—two artists...

..., TheDeathofCleopatragave Lewis the opportunity to gather myths of an ancient African queen and juxtapose and embellish their meanings to suit the needs of an Afro-Indian determined to express, through her art, the struggles to endure racism, sexism, and cultural isolation. There is no question that Cleopatra, as sculpted...

...Constance Bailey Abstract This article explores the evolution of Black women’s humor from its historic origins to its contemporary manifestations. The author argues that Black women humorists, including Zora Neale Hurston, the Queens of Comedy, and comediennes on A Black Lady Sketch Show...

...Daphne A. Brooks Abstract This essay explores the critical work of Beyoncé's second solo recording, and places it in conversation with yet another under-theorized yet equally dissonant R&B performance by her “hip-hop soul queen” contemporary Mary J. Blige. In relation to both Beyoncé's...

..."queens"squarely off of theirthronesinto a bedrockof promiscuity. -Dr. Zenobia L. Hikes, Ed.D. Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students, Spelman College [Meridiansf:eminism, race,transnationalism 2008, vol. 8, no. r, pp. 236-260) © 2008 by Smith College. All rights reserved. 236...

... available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Congruously, the cover art we selected for this special issue features Jeannette Ehlers and La Vaughn Belle’s monument, I Am Queen Mary , situated on the harbor front in Copenhagen, Denmark. As a public art...

... and true to herself. This confidence in her looks appears as early as eighth grade when she nominates herself for class homecoming queen, relating the process by which she wins the competition as one not requiring her to resort to any self-promotion at all (Moody [1968] 1975: 101). Moody distinguished...

...,titled Parablesfor a Season,the lack of a male heir traumatizes a king so deeply that he chooses to step down against the wishes of his four queens, Anehe, Wa, Bia, and Zo. At the time of the king's abdication his youngest queen, Bia, is pregnant. Parabledsescribes the machinations of the courtiers...

.... Bascomb looks at the Barbadian performer Allison Hines's performances as Soca queen to examine the role of black female royalty within African diasporic discourse. "So Proud to Be Your Queen explores the reclamation of Afrocentric nobility and provides an invitation to go beyond the conventional...

... by Smith College. All rights reserved. 261 Her devotion so impresses the dragon king that he returns her, releases her from her grave of seaweed, slimy grave of ocean floor, delivers her back to life atop a lotus flower; fishermen in the harbor stunned into silence. Yearslater, as a queen, she calls out...

... patriarch. The current rendition of this narrative, however, crystallizes and embodies this narrative within two powerful fictive characters: the Black Welfare Queen and the Endangered Black Male. The decline of Black males on a number ofindicators is tied, not to racism per se, but to their life...

... from America on television and think ofNefertiti. This is what I know of that Egyptian queen: It is said that she was a princess from another land. She was the wife of Akhenaten, and the mother of six daughters. She and her husband started a new religion. But then she suddenly disappeared from public...

..., Makana Kāne Kuahiwinui, and Malanai Kāne Kuahiwinui. 4 These wāhine (women) performers offered a creative interpretation of the words of Queen Liliʻuokalani, the last sovereign of the Hawaiian Kingdom who was overthrown by male American and British plantation owners with the backing of the U.S. Navy...

... provided translations; if not, I have translated these words in the endnotes. THAT LITTLE BOY JyotirmoyeeDevi I. The Center for Adult Education was located in Queen's Park, Delhi. And that morning, there were people everywhere, some rushing while others sat in the winter sunshine. Three women stood near...

... white, white steed and panniers of riches. In veils and swathing she would be reborn as queen. Out in the ramparts the last village seared. Her parents cried out for their lost girkhild, "Ts'ai Yen,Ts'ai Yen," but the sky did not answer. Her thin jade bracelet shattered into five dazzling pieces, one...

... within its structure. For instance, in 2002, the Oath of Allegiance to the queen ofEngland was changed. Public officials no longer swear allegiance to the Queen; they now swear allegiance to the Jamaican people and the Constitution ("Government pushes for new Oath," JamaicaGleaner1,0 September 2002...

... to whisper sunday morning prayers after we stand in doorways bellies full from dinner and faces scrubbed clean, still seeing the click-snap of clothesline ropes near tops of trees, deedee the double-dutch queen traces circular outlines of street-light with her feet, one in front of the other, dragging her...