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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 271–290.
Published: 01 October 2021
... Smith College 2021 anti-Muslim racisms racial marking civilizational thinking veiling Orientalia Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism as discourse is not new and cannot be reduced to a phobia. 1 It is instead about a racial project of accumulation based on the idea of European...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 114–141.
Published: 01 September 2018
..., and socialist state policies intertwined to produce socialist women belonging to privileged ethnic majorities attached to racial Whiteness and European civilization, as well as Romani and Muslim women whose Otherness marked them for state-led socialist emancipation or eradication. These women engage with women...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 239–260.
Published: 01 March 2004
... to board his ship. (57) The subject's compulsive return to this scene, like so many other repetitions in the poem, indicates the traumatic nature ofracial interpellation. Sexualized through her racial marking as Asian, the young adolescent is asked to identify as a Japanese geisha, an icon of sexualized...
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 (2021) 20 (2): 491–503.
Published: 01 October 2021
... marked as dangerous, “a terrorist.” I never understood as a child that this was not simply a result of racial marking or being identified as Palestinian, but was also in part due to being marked as genderqueer. My gender non-conformity manifested itself in being stereotyped as violent and dangerous...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 417–438.
Published: 01 October 2024
... to physically marked blackness and coloredness. It does not require a racial mark of itself, only those of others. For instance, even the white poor in the United States may cling more anguishedly to the idea of white skin than their wealthy counterparts, claiming intrinsic difference from people of color...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 267–296.
Published: 01 October 2023
... was then used to justify an intensification of government-led gendered and ethnoracial oppression. Hijacking progressive discourses, AKP members began marking themselves and their Sunni Muslim constituencies, whom they designated as Turkey’s sole pious Muslims, with racial metaphors. The party’s supporters were...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 436–454.
Published: 01 October 2022
... of meaning, duplicates of racialized marking—the present as well as the past. This “incessant invasion” solidifies the imagery of the disposed, as those lacking power are marked upon such meaning at the same time that their marked bodies are mediated in reverse.” When I saw footage of Bree Newsome...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 413–435.
Published: 01 October 2022
... the politics of the racialized artist’s labor position within racial capital as an entry point into a critique of liberal Western institutions, namely, the museum and prison but also the home and university. Nicole Fleetwood’s book and exhibition Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (2020...
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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
... and cultural identities of Afro-Brazilian women through the naturalization of colonial practices of racial and gender domination. In a country marked by contradictory discourses and attitudes about its racial dynamics, it is worth noting that both de Lima and Amado are examples of modernist writers committed...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 137–163.
Published: 01 September 2010
... that both marks them as citizens and then denies them cultural citizenship by performing their ethnicity as other to a racial-cultural nationality (Munasighe 2001, 1-2). The fact that Indo-Trinidadian women participate in and perform soca culture in the public sphere without having direct access...
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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 March 2005
... racial background and their inclination to "pass Without adequate markings or clues, any reading, whether ofidentities or situations, is flawed or incorrect. A brief, almost ofThand, remark Irene makes refers to a legal trial in which these issues of knowledge, passing, and the gaze combined in a process...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 162–182.
Published: 01 September 2006
... and other clearly marked citizens of African descent have witnessed in this country. The experience is one that lightskinned Latinos do not confront. For light-skinned Latinos, discrimination occurs through ethnicity not on the basis of color, phenotype, or other racial markers. S. Vidal-Ortiz argues...
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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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 133–160.
Published: 01 September 2005
... and the social impression of Chinese womanhood, especially in California (1999, 9-ro). The combination of statistics with racialized eugenics and moral precepts that dominant American society held in the mid- to late 1800s marked Chinese women as outside the acceptable parameters of the social body of the nation...
View articletitled, From a Distance of One Hundred and Twenty Years: Theorizing Diasporic Chinese Female Subjectivities in Geling Yan's The Lost Daughter of Happiness
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 73–103.
Published: 01 September 2006
... is that these new modes of affiliation and connection are as much a sign of globalization as the more pernicious effects of racialized and gendered exploitation. In the particular contexts ofTrinidad and Tobago, sexuality, morality, and propriety are the discourses that carry over from colonial to neocolonial modes...
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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 (2013) 11 (2): 29–59.
Published: 01 March 2013
... for Indian food, and so on-she cannot embody the gendered and racialized logics of Madhuri Dixit's beauty. To do so would allow her to wear the femininity of the cosmopolitan ethnic. Miranda's feelings of numbness mark a crisis in her own white femininity: the encounter with Indian female beauty twice...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 363–388.
Published: 01 December 2020
... is an ethnic or racially based category, however marked it may be by biological, social, and visual signifiers (Burke 1996 ; Peiss 1998 ; Kawashima 2002 ; Hall 2005 ; Hunter 2005 ; Rondilla and Spickard 2007 ; Pierre 2008 ; Glenn 2009 ; Parameswaran and Cardoza 2009 ). For example, when cultural...
View articletitled, Cosmopolitan Whiteness: The Effects and Affects of Skin-Whitening Advertisements in a Transnational Women’s Magazine in Indonesia
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 401–426.
Published: 01 October 2020
... The three dancing figures—soon joined by even more merengueros—wear androgynous black clothing and, although Indiana is wearing heels, her out lesbian identity, six-foot frame, and short men’s haircut mark her as queer. For the better part of two decades, Rita Indiana Hernández has been one of the most...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 128–156.
Published: 01 September 2000
... by her personal unfamiliarity with their hair texture. In helping to care for each other's hair, a spirit of feminine intimacy across racial boundaries marked by hair care practices- "between ourselves, girls to the end"-was developed and sustained. Finally, although she herself is Dominican and has fine...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 239–249.
Published: 01 October 2020
... White and White-presenting Latin American immigrants write about how their “English with an accent” marks them as racially other in the context of historically White campuses in the United States. “Differences between the privilege encountered by the White South African participant and the challenges...
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