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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 50–69.
Published: 01 June 2016
... Minister of Racial Equality Luiza Bairros took office as part of President Dilma Rousseff's administration in January 20n as the head of the Brazilian Secretariat of Public Policies for the Promotion of Racial Equality. She is also a recognized scholar in the areas of Feminist Studies, Race Relations...
View articletitled, Feminisms and Anti-Racism: Intersections and Challenges An interview with Luiza Bairros, Minister, Brazilian Secretariat of Public Policies for the Promotion of <span class="search-highlight">Racial</span> Equality (SEPPIR), 2011–2014
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for article titled, Feminisms and Anti-Racism: Intersections and Challenges An interview with Luiza Bairros, Minister, Brazilian Secretariat of Public Policies for the Promotion of <span class="search-highlight">Racial</span> Equality (SEPPIR), 2011–2014
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 39–48.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Wendy Thompson Taiwo Abstract In this personal essay, the author analyzes what it means to be black and Asian American in a nation where racial capital determines social value and non-black immigrants are encouraged to uphold and abide by anti-black systems, policies, and practices. Narrating her...
View articletitled, Despite Your Tiger Mother, or Your Other <span class="search-highlight">Racial</span> Half Will Not Save You from What the World Thinks of Your Blackness
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 97–106.
Published: 01 September 2018
... Smith College 2018 racial identity Afro-Caribbean aesthetics Blackness Puerto Rico I understand that this space is a place to start telling people that because I have a curly and grifo hair and I’m black, because I am not either white or colorá, I am black! Period. Black. Why can’t I go...
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Meridians (2002) 3 (1): 161–190.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Terry Kawashima ESSAY Seeing Faces, Making Races Challenging Visu:ilTropes of Racial Difference TERRY KAWASHIMA When mostfore(gnerslookat man.gafor thefirst time today and seecharacterswith hu.gesaucereyes,lanky le.gs,and whatappears to beblondehair,they oftenwantto know why thereare so many...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 239–260.
Published: 01 March 2004
... Feminine and Racial Melancholia The Asian American female inhabits a position in the U.S. national unconscious that I will call the oriental feminine, a femininity produced by orientalism. Edward Said and others have noted that the "Orient" was produced discursively and epistemologically as a feminized...
View articletitled, “I Cannot Find Her”: The Oriental Feminine, <span class="search-highlight">Racial</span> Melancholia, and Kimiko Hahn's The Unbearable Heart
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 40–67.
Published: 01 March 2004
...,in ToniMorrison'Ps aradise In 1998, the Directors' Review Committee of the Texas prison system banned Toni Morrison's Paradisefrom Texas prisons. According to the Review Committee, Morrison's novel contains "information of a racial nature" that "a reasonable person would construe as written solely for the purpose...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Racial</span> House, Big House, Home: Contemporary Abolitionism in Toni Morrison's Paradise
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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 March 2005
... out of a window, the reality of a homosexual longing between Clare and Irene, or the true nature of the relationship between Clare and Irene's husband. This indeterminacy extends to the racial identity of Larsen's characters, an identity not always easily discernible because of the characters' mixed...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 236–264.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Malia Lee Womack Abstract The United States does not meet global human rights standards regarding economic, social, and cultural rights. In 1994 the United States ratified the United Nations core anti-racism treaty, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial...
View articletitled, An Intersectional Approach to Interrogating Rights: How the United States Does Not Comply with the <span class="search-highlight">Racial</span> Equality Treaty
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for article titled, An Intersectional Approach to Interrogating Rights: How the United States Does Not Comply with the <span class="search-highlight">Racial</span> Equality Treaty
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in Making Democracy Real: African American Women, Birth Control, and Social Justice, 1910–1960
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Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 10. U.S. Children’s Bureau graphic depicting racial disparity in maternal and infant mortality, in Planned Parenthood Federation of America report, Better Health for 13,000,000 , 1943. Florence Rose Papers, SSC.
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 162–182.
Published: 01 September 2006
...,sintrato especial Aquiin mas Seleocurrfo Saturarla mentea ninosinocentes Coneducaci6inncosistente Manipuladaviciosamentae Conveniencdiaelprominentedelaspudiente1s --Tego Calderon, "Loiza," (2002) This autoethnography examines the intersections of the racialized, gendered, and sexualized body that have...
View articletitled, From Trigueñita to Afro-Puerto Rican: Intersections of the <span class="search-highlight">Racialized</span>, Gendered, and Sexualized Body in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Mainland
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for article titled, From Trigueñita to Afro-Puerto Rican: Intersections of the <span class="search-highlight">Racialized</span>, Gendered, and Sexualized Body in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Mainland
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 298–322.
Published: 01 October 2021
... and apprehending Muslims. Given technological innovations, like autocorrect functions that “correct” conversations about the “racialization” of Muslims to the “radicalization” of Muslims (to give one example), algorithmic manipulations of data depend on sexualizing and racializing assemblages that tell a familiar...
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View articletitled, Shari’a Barbie’s Afterlives: Apprehending <span class="search-highlight">Racialized</span> and Sexualized Islam through Social Media
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Shireen M. Roshanravan Abstract Ethnic Studies and Asian American feminist scholars have investigated how the model-minority racial discourse functions to prevent cross-racial coalition and to cast doubt on Asian American women in their claims to Women of Color political identity. However, none...
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 117–141.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Laura Gillman Abstract This essay examines racial scripts as indicators of differentiated gender–race formations, expressed through a double-voiced discourse. White feminists deploy scripts to disaffiliate from a universalized gender but at the same time deny racial difference in order to maintain...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 114–141.
Published: 01 September 2018
... and former socialist states in central and southeastern Europe. Women members of dominant majorities in Bulgaria, Poland, and Romania seek links to women of color in the Global North and South but their bridgework rests upon claims to racial innocence and shared victimization. The study relates these modes...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 250–270.
Published: 01 October 2020
... American women’s arsenal of legal strategies included the “Lady Sambo,” an intentional racialized gender performance of feigned ignorance. By performing the “Lady Sambo”—an ignorant, servile black woman in need of protection—some poor black women mobilized their expertise in white racism to defend...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Sreerekha Sathi Abstract This essay is a testimonial of the author’s experiences, memories, and reflections about becoming a person/woman of color, discovering, and unearthing the meanings of racialization, white privilege, and white supremacy in the contemporary United States. The author gives...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 95–115.
Published: 01 March 2008
.... This paper examines these two questions—the economic and the epistemic—in relation to each other, by examining the university's management of racialized bodies as a function of its management of racialized knowledge. Indeed, if we take the university as an exemplary institution of global capital, we find...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2009
... and racialized surveillance and punishment. This perspective works toward dismantling penal structures while simultaneously seeking the abolition of racialized gender policing and an end to violence against gender non-conforming prisoners. Copyright © 2009 by Smith College 2009 JULIA SUDBURY...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 15–41.
Published: 01 March 2010
... of racialized color hierarchy and European/Euro-American hegemony in local and global contexts (Hunter 2005; Pierre 2008; Glenn 2009;). This article breaks away from these established theoretical trajectories by arguing that desire for “whiteness” is not the same as desire for “Caucasian whiteness.” Examining...
View articletitled, Cosmopolitan Whiteness: The Effects and Affects of Skin-Whitening Advertisements in a Transnational Women's Magazine in Indonesia
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Beyond the Flesh: Contemporary Representations of the Black Female Body in Afro-Brazilian Literature
Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 148–176.
Published: 01 June 2016
..., they carry both the silenced histories of racial and sexual exploitation and the appeal of hyper-sexualized and exoticized stereotypes. I am also interested in discussing how these writings/writers articulate notions and images connected to discourses of mestiçagem in order to rewrite black women's bodies...
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