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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 237–248.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Maylei Blackwell; Nadine Naber Copyright © 2002 by Wesleyan University Press 2002 REPORT Intersectionality in an Era of Globalization The Implications of the UN World Conference against Racism for 'fransnational Feminist Practices-A Conference Report MAYLE! BLACKWELL AND NADINE NABER...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 194–207.
Published: 01 March 2001
... 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...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 414–442.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of Nabra Hassanen in Reston, Virginia. This author argues that the denial of these cases as hate crimes contributes to the diminishment of anti-Muslim racism and should be understood as a form of racial gaslighting—a systematic denial of the persistence and severity of racism. In conversation with those...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 291–297.
Published: 01 October 2021
... that women are universally coerced into wearing this garment despite empirical research noting that women wear the niqab as an expression of faith. The treatment of niqab-wearing women requires close attention to the transnational routes of legalized anti-Muslim racism. 9 See Bakht 2020 ; Loi du 1er...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 340–369.
Published: 01 October 2021
... and practices, as a particular obstacle to modernization nor did they regard Muslim women as oppressed specifically by Islam. The early years of the Cold War period were marked, undoubtedly, by US racism and condescension toward the populations of Asia and Africa—but, significantly, not by the distinct...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 261–270.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Zeynep K. Korkman; Sherene Halida Razack korkman@ucla.edu sherenerazack@ucla.edu Copyright © 2021 Smith College 2021 This special issue brings together feminist scholars to theorize anti-Muslim racism. It specifically attends to an understanding of anti-Muslim racism...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 50–69.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Luiza Bairros; Sonia E. Alvarez; Miriam Adelman LUIZA BAIRROS AND SONIA E. ALVAREZ Translatedby MiriamAdelman Feminisms and Anti-Racism: Intersectionsand Challenges An interviewwith LuizaBairros, Minister,BrazilianSecretariatof PublicPolicies for the Promotionof RacialEquality(SEPPIR)2,011-2014...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 76–79.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Claudia Ferreira; Adriana Medeiros CLAUDIA FERREIRA AND ADRIANA MEDEIROS Marchagainst Racism andViolenceand in Favor of LivingWell (bemviver) Brasilia2 015 1 NationalBlackWomen's March Novemberr8 MANIFESTO We are 49 million black women-in other words, 25 percent of the Brazilian population. We...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 189–204.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Rita Turner Abstract The first half of this piece is an essay exploring environmental racism through the lens of the lead poisoning of Freddie Gray. The essay outlines some details of Gray’s lead poisoning and gives background and examples of how environmental degradation and exposure to toxins...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 513–521.
Published: 01 December 2020
... contra o Racismo e a Violência e pelo Bem Viver (Black Women’s March against Racism and Violence and for Living Well), which brought tens of thousands of Black women to Brasília on November 18, 2015, is described in an opening essay by Alvarez. It is followed by one of the several Manifestos produced...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 250–270.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Leigh-Anne Francis Abstract In the post–Civil War South, black women litigants made conscious tactical appeals to white male judges’ racism, particularly the racist-sexist stereotypes at the heart of the white paternalism ethos, in order to win lawsuits against whites who defrauded them. African...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 396–413.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Tatiana Rabinovich Abstract Global anti-Muslim racism takes new and specific forms in contemporary Russia by mobilizing the shifting meanings of “Blackness” to stigmatize vulnerable populations. Stemming from the tsarist and Soviet pasts, these meanings of “Blackness” (and “whiteness”) have been...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 271–290.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Minoo Moallem Abstract This article focuses on anti-Muslim racism as a discourse that collapses race and religion and cannot be reduced to phobia. It is instead about a racial project of accumulation based on European superiority and how cultural racism upholds the European civilizational project...
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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...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 114–141.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Miglena S. Todorova Abstract Recent scholarship on Black American women and feminists in the radical Left documents how these women's travel to the Soviet Union and other socialist countries in the twentieth century influenced their understanding of racism, imperialism, patriarchy, and capitalism...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 427–452.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., enforce, and reinforce an economic order that relies upon race and racism to codify and cement black inequality. Finally, the author posits that the movement’s tactics and goals provide a framework through which to enact short-term change, while pushing to dismantle the larger system of antiblack racism...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 163–183.
Published: 01 September 2018
..., specifically relating to the neo-lynching of Korryn Gaines and Sandra Bland. This work deviates from the tradition of analyzing the history and contemporary effects of racism and white supremacy, patriarchy, lynching, policing, and state-sponsored violence from the perspective of the effects upon the victim...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 97–106.
Published: 01 September 2018
... to address three main subjects: the presence of racism in Puerto Rico and its connections to colonialism, a proposal to subvert patriarchal forms that dictate relationships between women, and an invitation to embrace our Afro-Caribbean identity as a manifestation of cultural resistance. Copyright © 2018...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 78–98.
Published: 01 September 2014
... for women. Unfortunately, what they found on the “Queen's soil” was that racism as well as sexist beliefs were a transcending sentiment, which did not discontinue at the American-Canadian international border. Still, these women in the dominion of Canada fought to challenge constructed borders, whether...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 56–78.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of citizenship, taking into equal account racism, sexism, classism, and uneven capital distribution as intersecting categories affecting the practice of acting as and the status of being a citizen. Applying to contemporary Caribbean women's writing the analytical category of sexual citizenship thus engenders...
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