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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 99–122.
Published: 01 September 2014
... newspapers and William Still's social history The Underground Rail Road (1872) to reveal how antislavery culture wavered in its representation of single black women. On one hand, antislavery rhetoric emphasized black marriage as the epitome of civic freedom, while on the other hand admitting that women...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 98–105.
Published: 01 September 2011
... shook and destroyed Port-au-Prince, we were "on the road," more exactly on Canape-Vert Road, on our way down to Port-auPrince, Joelle, my sister-in-law, her mother Denise, and I. For the thirty or thirty-five seconds that the earthquake lasted, we did not understand what was happening. Joelle...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 94.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Glenis Redmond Copyright © 2008 by Smith College 2008 GLENIS REDMOND Benediction We took back roads cutting cross country traveling from one small road to another snaking from Moonville to Mauldin. my big brother Willie and I rode while the blue Duster began stuttering a dubious rattle...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 250–277.
Published: 01 March 2003
... rule. It invested heavily in the construction of roads and markets especially in the villages and hamlets that extended beyond the town's metropolitan center.3 Abeokuta was a producer of several major export items for the international economy: palm oil, palm kernels, cocoa-and the regional economy...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 414–442.
Published: 01 October 2021
... was not classified as a hate crime because he did not have a social media presence that could prove anti-Muslim attitudes. Reports indicate that Torres accused one of the teens of blocking the road—the teen was riding his bike on the road—and that an argument ensued. The details of what was said are unclear...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 186.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Odilia Rivera Copyright © 2001 by Wesleyan University Press 2001 FUNERAL PROCESSION PUERTO NUEVO OdiliaRivera IN Shadowy figures float down a dirt road we hide behind skirts, afraid of spirits unleashed without purpose the faces somber Now, he is el difunto defunct, he will work no more...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2010
... in colors of the rainbow, Ray Ban dark glasses and knock-off Coach and Prada. In a high room across the road, above carts with chaat and spiced tea, Someone sitting in a chair feels he is slowly going blind. Over and over he runs his fingers over a page Spelling out the names of God In exquisite script read...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 146–156.
Published: 01 September 2004
... that their view was of the bay, the old fort, and the town of Fort Liberte. On Phaeton Point, two roads reached the land's end. The high one went to the house of the plantation's first manager, then past three other houses to the absentee owner's house, at the end of a long driveway.The low road went past six...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 183–190.
Published: 01 September 2006
... for that day at the local AIADMKparty secretary's office, where relief distribution was coordinated. The women would confront the local party secretary about his mismanagement and favoritism. We reached the street outside the party secretary's office. Many women sat on the road blocking traffic, a "road roko...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 112–126.
Published: 01 December 2020
.... This is true not only in the Diaspora, but also in the West Bank and Gaza, where massive bypass roads, 1 land confiscations, and Israeli settlements accentuate the stark realities of ongoing displacement. And it is true despite the systematic thwarting by Israel and other countries, particularly the U.S...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 113–126.
Published: 01 September 2001
.... This is true not only in the Diaspora, but also in the West Bank and Gaza, where massive bypass roads, 1 land confiscations, and Israeli settlements accentuate the stark realities of ongoing displacement. And it is true despite the systematic thwarting by Israel and other countries, particularly the U.S...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 14–31.
Published: 01 April 2020
... in the road, palmetto thickets, loblolly pines, Spanish moss, turgid puddles and ponds choked by duckweed Dirt rich with meaty grubs white and round Opossums and raccoons at night Scavenging, foraging, picking their way through the undergrowth, in rubbish bins, on porches and in sheds with nasty...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 382–388.
Published: 01 March 2017
... in diaspora criticism, the Middle Passage enables Gilroy to propose the Black Atlantic as a deterritorialized space free of ethnic and national particularities. The triangular trade functions as a motifin Paule Marshall's memoir as well. However, in Marshall's imagination, triangular oceans also lead to roads...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 49–72.
Published: 01 April 2022
... actively building a better future or what she describes as “a little more happiness down the road” (Danticat and Trouillot 2005 ). In an interview with Edwidge Danticat, Trouillot reflects on her poetry in the wake of deadly floods in Gonaïves in 2004. She articulates a relationship between past, present...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 219–224.
Published: 01 September 2014
... road. In 2009 the Tubman Bywaywas awarded All-American Road status by the Federal Highways Administration, the highest and most prestigious rank awarded to a scenic byway. 222 MERIDIANS 12:2 Simultaneously, efforts to establish a Harriet Tubman State Park in Dorchester County, MD began, and in 2005...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 126.
Published: 01 March 2002
... over her hand, nor her father, struck crossing the road his first night up from Mississippi, nor Andre of the luminous eyes, gunned down in his prom tuxedo. Nor can I make the girl she once was, beautiful and beloved, walk out of the heart-shaped frame to take Mrs. Danley in strong arms and exclaim, "I...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 359–360.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of Grahamstown on the Architecture of buildings as they drive out of town The younger of the two, the driver of the Benz, Steadies the car on the road while her mind jolts, Crosses over, skips, stretches, scatters & returns To the single holding thread: the warmth of sisterhood The oldest...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 76–77.
Published: 01 March 2002
...-throated, bass-toned One belts and rages, the others follow They fuck blissfully Trapped in their cycle Of rebirth, transient love Unprepared for higher ground And I, my mother's aging girl Myopic, goat-footed Got snagged on an unmarked trail The road diverged; I took The one less traveled Blah, blah I sit...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 213–214.
Published: 01 March 2002
... beneath the flesh. She is skin and bones walking the death road her spirit prepares to surrender. This she does not notice. This she avoids, but I approach margins of error knowing years later how deadly these proclamations can be. [Meridians:feminismr,ace,transnationalism2002, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 213-4] ©...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 108–113.
Published: 01 September 2011
... for a tap-tap to Delmas, so I gave them a ride. I asked them why they were in school so far away. One family had lost their house in the earthquake. The other family's house was intact, but the neighborhood was mostly abandoned and no longer deemed safe. One of the little girls was confused by the roads...
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