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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 162–182.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Maritza Quiñones Rivera Copyright © 2006 by Smith College 2006 MARITZA QUINONES RIVERA From Triguefiittao Afro- Puerto Rican IntersectionofstheRacializedG, endered, andSexualizeBdodyin PuertoRicoand theU.S.Mainland Mequierehacerpensar quesoypartedeuna trilogforacial Dondeto' elmundoesigual...
View articletitled, From Trigueñita to Afro-Puerto <span class="search-highlight">Rican</span>: Intersections of the Racialized, Gendered, and Sexualized Body in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Mainland
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 83–112.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Lourdes Torres Abstract While in the last decades there has been a proliferation of writings by Latina lesbians who theorize issues of intersectionality, missing still are the voices and analyses of Puerto Rican lesbians who articulate the specificity of Puerto Rican sexual, racial, national...
View articletitled, Queering Puerto <span class="search-highlight">Rican</span> Women's Narratives: Gaps and Silences in the Memoirs of Antonia Pantoja and Luisita López Torregrosa
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 279–307.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Lourdes Torres Abstract While in the last decades there has been a proliferation of writings by Latina lesbians who theorize issues of intersectionality, missing still are the voices and analyses of Puerto Rican lesbians who articulate the specificity of Puerto Rican sexual, racial, national...
View articletitled, Queering Puerto <span class="search-highlight">Rican</span> Women’s Narratives: Gaps and Silences in the Memoirs of Antonia Pantoja and Luisita López Torregrosa
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 264–266.
Published: 01 September 2004
... that intersect at corresponding points: gender and race. This book constitutes a fresh departure and new angle in that she expands the scope of the Latin American literary terrain through a detailed examination of Afro-Costa Rican women poets such as Eulalia Bernard (old school) and the works of two younger...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 446–474.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Julie Torres Abstract The 2016 shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was mourned as an unspeakable act of violence against the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) community. But what was perhaps less audible was the fact that Latinxs, particularly Puerto Ricans, who...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 25–45.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Dorothy E. Mosby Abstract This paper is both a personal reflection and critical analysis of the circulation of the poem “Rotundamente negra” by Afro-Costa Rican poet and cultural activist Shirley Campbell among Afro-descendant women in Latin America. As I heard various recitations...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 65–84.
Published: 01 April 2020
... to identify debt as an extractive enterprise and seize hold of a notion of freedom that is robust enough to resist what Jodi Kim and Michael Hudson have called “debt imperialism.” Paying attention to the recent Puerto Rican revolt against the governor, the fiscal control board, the management of hurricane...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 360–382.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Marie Cruz Soto Abstract This article delves into the history of medical institutions, birthing practices, and reproductive rights in Vieques. The exploration exposes contradictions at the heart of Puerto Rico’s colonial modernity. Around the middle of the twentieth century, Puerto Ricans were...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 439–464.
Published: 01 October 2024
... include the rewriting of Christmas songs and plenas , an Afro Puerto Rican musical genre, and their Radical Feminist School, a political education space open to nonmembers. Through these pedagogical interventions La Cole simultaneously calls attention to the ways state and structural gender-based violence...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 278–294.
Published: 01 October 2020
... that challenges traditional modes of knowledge production. Copyright © 2020 Smith College 2020 public housing Puerto Ricans New York City Latina feminism In 1966, my grandmother, Calixta Rosa (1910–2002), received a New York City Housing Authority Certificate of Merit ( fig. 1 ). I learned...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 April 2020
... Ricans via the Jones Act of 1917—notably nearly twenty years after the island, together with Guam and the Philippines, was made an unincorporated territory subject to U.S. rule under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1898)—Puerto Rican women on the island were not enfranchised by the Nineteenth Amendment...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 372–393.
Published: 01 October 2019
...-generation Puerto Rican, born and raised in immigrant communities in New York, describes her affinity for quotidian women’s cultures, for Black and Jewish and Latin American life in the city, for English literature, for communist political ideals—synthesizing a mature but buoyant, leftist, womanist feminism...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 93–109.
Published: 01 March 2003
... and said, "No, it didn't happen like that"? co FER: Well backlash is probably too strong of a word. Of course as a writer I take my poetic license wherever I go. So I do not sit down to think in terms of "what will people think." But I have had other writers, Puerto 96 MARGARET CRUMPTON Rican writers from...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): v–x.
Published: 01 March 2003
... the characters' coming-of-age struggles. Crumpton similarly examines "transplantation" in her discussion with Judith Ortiz Cofer, a discussion that sheds light on Ortiz Cofer's transcultural identity. As Ortiz Cofer declares: "Puerto Rican to me is not a matter oflocation. I don't have to be a Puerto Rican from...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 166–176.
Published: 01 March 2008
.... The Internationar Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU)-whose overwhelming membership consists of black and Puerto Rican women-has a leadership that is nearly lily-white and male. This leadership has been working in collusion with the ruling class and has completely sold its soul to the corporate structure. To add...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 239–249.
Published: 01 October 2020
... and transnational spirit, this issue of Meridians features essays that take up feminist, antiracist, and anti-imperialist politics and organizing by African American, Cuban, Dominican, Puerto Rican, Chicana, and South American diasporic activists, culture workers, and scholars working in a variety of sectors...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 1–24.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of the Krudas concert brought together so many Afro-Colombian women who continued celebrating the concert in the social media as a moment of freedom and community-making for weeks after the event. Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans are also bearers of a renaissance in Black politics in general and Afro-Latin...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): v–vi.
Published: 01 September 2009
... against her-less critical work has been done on Lewis's work itself. In Naurice Frank Woods's essay, "An African Queen at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition 1876The Death of Cleopatra" receives a much welcome critique. In "Queering Puerto Rican Women's Narratives," Lourdes Torres adds the specific...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 265–292.
Published: 01 April 2022
... “compensated” each owner “with 35 million pesetas per slave” (Library of Congress 2011 ). Ugh . . . the inhumanity. It’s hard to stomach it. . . . In Puerto Rico, you can see the racial divide, especially since there are some towns (example: Loiza) that are majority Afro–Puerto Ricans. That is, Afro–Puerto...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 117–145.
Published: 01 September 2004
... and genetic histories, which may include African, white European, and/or indigenous. Sociologist Juan Flores, former director of The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, has addressed both the uses and misuses of memory and identity construction in his studies of the way that Nuyoricans restore...
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