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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 149–201.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Alyssa Garcia Abstract In 1961, several mass organizations in Cuba collaborated as Fidel Castro launched a national campaign against prostitution. By 1965, only four years later, the Revolution proclaimed “the elimination of prostitution” in Cuba. This article examines the Cuban Revolution’s...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 123–154.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Laura Lomas Abstract The exiled Cuban poet, editor, and feminist Lourdes Casal breaks with social scientific convention and identifies in the first person with “Hispanic Blackness,” feminism, and Cuba in her essays about race and revolution. Her bridging of identity categories informs Casal’s self...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 490–509.
Published: 01 October 2024
... racism in both Tunisia and France. It details Abdelhamid’s trajectory in becoming conscious of her Black and African identities, her complex relationship with her Arab identity, her role in building the Black movement in Tunisia after the 2011 revolution, and her arrival in France and experiences...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 457–470.
Published: 01 October 2019
..., between the United States (Nadine) and Lebanon (Deema). Copyright © 2019 Smith College 2019 activism social movements Middle East Lebanon transnationalism Arab Spring revolution We began this research in 2015, when Nadine initiated a discussion about what it could look like to produce...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 166–176.
Published: 01 March 2008
.... WellsBarnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Fannie Lou Hamer, to name but a few. We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the black nation must be as academically and technologically developed as possible. To wage a revolution, we need competent teachers, doctors, nurses, FRANCES M. BEAL...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 484–507.
Published: 01 December 2020
... been rounded up and subjected to horrific abuse. Journalists have been sexually assaulted. And now, women are being attacked, stripped, and beaten in the streets. This systematic degradation of Egyptian women dishonors the revolution, disgraces the state and its uniform, and is not worthy of a great...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 164–188.
Published: 01 March 2016
... dishonors the revolution, disgraces the state and its uniform, and is not worthy of a great people. (Clinton 2011) What is forgotten in the process is that disgracing of "the state and its uniform" is not a monopoly of the elsewhere. Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Bagram, and the many US secret prisons across...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 158–162.
Published: 01 September 2011
... unequal distribution bygranmanje,ti manje bigthievess, mallthieves local exploiters, foreign moguls as our girls are raped and preyed upon How many cups of revolution will it take to reconstruct and rebuild Haiti? How many cups of revolution will it take for little Faila to throw away her whistle...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 49–72.
Published: 01 April 2022
... illustrates the spiral-like nature of resistive tragedy by situating the women’s revolt within a larger history of continued resistance in the Caribbean. Their revolt is inspired by the Haitian Revolution and the wave of uprisings sweeping the Caribbean at the end of the eighteenth century. The narrator...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 79–111.
Published: 01 September 2018
... research and politics on sexuality. If the women's liberation movements of the late 1960s and the 1970s were building on the liberalizations of the "sexual revolution" of the 1960s (Willis 2014, 175-99), they also need to be seen as a reaction to the dominant ways that sexual liberation was interpreted...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 394–413.
Published: 01 October 2019
... was its meeting with Dora María Tellez, popularly known as “Comandante Dos,” a central leader of the FSLN (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional) throughout the 1980s and one of the most prolific women leaders of the revolution (Hobson 2012 : 7). It is important to note that these participants were...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 146–156.
Published: 01 September 2004
... into a town that was renamed Fort Dauphin in the early eighteenth century to honor the Dauphin of France. During the Haitian Revolution that started in 1791, Fort Dauphin was renamed Fort Liberte, and it was there that the first-and very conciliatory-Declaration oflndependence of Haiti was signed, on November...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 209–236.
Published: 01 April 2020
... Valley Workers Center (PVWC) is an organization committed to building the collective power of workers and immigrants. 1 Its strategy aims to bridge reforms and revolution. We organize grassroots campaigns to win reforms that will improve the lives of workers and immigrants, from recovering stolen...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 360–383.
Published: 01 October 2024
... of the Resistance: Intellectuals and the Origins of El Salvador’s Civil War . New York : Oxford University Press . Chomsky Aviva . 2021 . Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration . Boston : Beacon Press . Dalton Roque . 2007 . “ Document 3-3...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 17–40.
Published: 01 April 2019
... represents the uncharitable, business-focused external threat to that nation. Risking her financial well-being, Doña María, like many women after the Mexican Revolution, continues her unconditional devotion to her children, a scenario that resonated with both conservatives and liberals. Women were...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 443–465.
Published: 01 October 2021
... by some and terrorist by others, she was part of a roving band of bearded Muslim queens who roamed the world striking fear into American- and European-backed rebel groups stalking the Middle East. She was killed in the Great Queer Revolution but has been resurrected through Wi-Fi technology and comes back...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 261–277.
Published: 01 October 2019
... delegation barred from attending the conference by Douglas MacArthur’s government, women’s work in their revolutions was clandestine and life-threatening. In the years after the Asian Women’s Conference, women increasingly became the public face of revolutionary, anticolonial peace through a rhetoric...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 204–212.
Published: 01 September 2000
..., 1965?How many Negro teachers will teach white children who are now teaching Negro children? The Department of Health, Education and Welfare has its responsibility but we also have ours. Our responsibility is to secure forourchildren all of the rights for which the CivilRights Revolution of the last...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 65–84.
Published: 01 April 2020
... of revolution corresponded with the intensification of slavery, and this fact ought to give us pause about who gets free through liberalism. The postemancipation passbook ( libreta) system in Puerto Rico that policed African-descended workers and forced them to stay on sugar plantations was “freedom,” a kind...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 383–400.
Published: 01 November 2018
.... Conflict was not limited to wars but also included street violence. Some of the songs with strong social and political content are “Africa Rise” by Lness (Kenya), “Revolution” by Moona (Senegal), “Social Ills” by Godessa (South Africa), “Fees Will Fall” by Gigi Lamayne (South Africa), and “Brown Baas...
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