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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 61–62.
Published: 01 March 2007
..., no. 2, pp. 61-62] ©2007 by Smith College. All rights reserved. 61 gnaw dreams into gums, wishing they could jump like that, like deedee who loosens fingerprints and liquored breath all day saturday into midnight when rope has turned to sky and her feet, sore from jumping into and out of have began...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 72–74.
Published: 01 March 2002
... You have your listlessness Its dull ache Youhave your fine breasts Your hard maids You have your strong presences Better than absences Better than abscesses You have your coital fire Behold, Great Mother Your black rope of hair Behold: breasts, crotch Scrotum, harbor, sun Your poems will write...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 49–63.
Published: 01 March 2008
... to the rosewood bed. She rinsed soiled cloths, hung them out to dry on a coir rope by a vine, its passion fruit clumsy with age, dangling. She lies on a mat, a poor thing beached, belly slack, soles crossed, sari damp and white. I kneel in darkness at her side, her oldest child returned for a few weeks...
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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 86–88.
Published: 01 March 2005
... somewhere not far from here I hear the crows in her black hair climbing braided ropes, feel the burn of the Serenghetti setting in her amber eyes [Meridians:feminism,race,transnationalism 2005, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 86-87] ©2005 by Smith College. All rights reserved. 86 held by cheekboned cliffs. Understand...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 14–31.
Published: 01 April 2020
... night’s table scraps Women kneading biscuit dough rich with lard, cut into perfect circles with mason jars Will Head is the first Black man to die He suffers in the afternoon heat Blackberry thickets drone, briars everywhere He climbed the tree, rope around his neck and jumped What choices...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 177–194.
Published: 01 March 2006
.... The Moolaade, a potent invocation indexed in the community's social history, is symbolized by an anthill in the village square and enacted by a rope across the entrance to her compound that the girls may not cross (else they forfeit their safety) nor can community members cross to retrieve them, without...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 300–305.
Published: 01 December 2016
... but not to our uncles the one that's already on the wall in my grandmother's kitchen the one that heavily samples a light-footed jump rope song the one that hurt to write like breaking ribs the one i wrote every morning and forgot every night the one all about the moon held and sharpened by the dark those...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 123–147.
Published: 01 March 2016
.... I gave her a place to sit on a stool in a cool corner of the house, and a glass of water for the heat. She had a heavy ring around her ankle and a rope around her throat. I loosened the rope, I fanned her as I had fanned our mother when the sun was too hot. She sat and began humming a nice tune. I...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 69–86.
Published: 01 December 2020
... the shop of an elderly Black barber, Scott Burton, shot him, and dragged him through the town at the end of a rope. This was followed by the lynching of an eighty-four-year-old Black man named William Donegan, targeted because of his thirty-four-year marriage to a White woman. Donegan was taken from his...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2001
... routed the shop of an elderly black barber, Scott Burton, shot him, and dragged him MISSING IN ACTION 3 through the town at the end of a rope. This was followed by the lynching of an eighty-four-year-old black man named William Donegan, targeted because of his thirty-four-year marriage to a white woman...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 163–183.
Published: 01 September 2018
... of “a dozen or more” white men snatched seventeen-year-old Marie Scott from jail and hanged her from a light pole (Davis 2008 ). On June 24, 1912, Ann Barksdale, who was accused of murdering her female employer, was placed in a car with a rope around her neck, the other side of the rope tied to a tree...
View articletitled, Sassy Mouths, Unfettered Spirits, and the Neo-Lynching of Korryn Gaines and Sandra Bland: Conceptualizing Post Traumatic Slave Master Syndrome and the Familiar “Policing” of Black Women’s Resistance in Twenty-First-Century America
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for article titled, Sassy Mouths, Unfettered Spirits, and the Neo-Lynching of Korryn Gaines and Sandra Bland: Conceptualizing Post Traumatic Slave Master Syndrome and the Familiar “Policing” of Black Women’s Resistance in Twenty-First-Century America
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 179–186.
Published: 01 September 2000
... at the edge of the bed and pulled TheWavesoff the shelf. Before I opened the book, I glanced out of the window. There were no humans visible, but I could see the brown cow tugging at its rope, nuzzling into sweet hay; a goat tipsy with heat; white doves scrambling awkwardly towards the seeds in the dovecote...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 255–278.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of this theme on B-Day , inasmuch as the song reaffirms Knowles’s control of her space on this album. “Get Me Bodied” is a track that is both more percussively oriented than “Déjà vu” and more resonant with the sounds of Black girls’ play—rope-twirling, hand-clapping, and improvised cheers—games...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 158–184.
Published: 01 April 2022
... needed to tie them up with a rope, and if they chewed through the rope, tie them up with a chain, and if they chewed through the chain, then let them go, they aren’t worth it. Something like that. So the women sang this at their gatherings. We realized that they had to make lyrics that women could sing...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 436–454.
Published: 01 October 2022
.... The components of the red image are a ball, rope, and the shadow of a lantern purchased nearby Truth’s former home. The green shows the roses left at the statue. The blue depicts bird-block netting purchased at Home Depot that references an absent body—Truth and other unknown pre-twentieth-century African...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 19–52.
Published: 01 September 2008
... Construction" after the fourth album, of the same name, by rapper Missy Elliot. Elliot begins the album by explaining that "under construction" signifies that she is still "working" on herself. Additionally, it represents Elliot's project of taking hip-hop back to "the rope" or to the beginning when...
View articletitled, “Under Construction”: Identifying Foundations of Hip-Hop Feminism and Exploring Bridges between Black Second-Wave and Hip-Hop Feminisms
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 128–145.
Published: 01 March 2002
... in their rope cots. In the Delhi cold, her grandmother, the children, and her father were huddled together with quilts and blankets in one room. Raj took off her salwaar-kameeaznd chunniand changed into a blouse and kachheraor pajamas, and climbed into bed. In the unremitting darkness of the room, a ray...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 204–249.
Published: 01 March 2003
... as skilled, highly educated Nepali experts find themselves having to accommodate high-status expatriate experts who may spend most of their tour in Nepal simply learning the ropes" (1993, 55). 54 As an outsider, a Westerner, a procurer of development grants, and as a woman bent on "empowering" Maithil women...
View articletitled, Feminist Tigers and Patriarchal Lions: Rhetorical Strategies and Instrument Effects in the Struggle for Definition and Control over Development in Nepal
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 372–393.
Published: 01 October 2019
... this venerable thinker and to receive her wisdom and vision for transformation. ○ ○ ○ BL: Part of your work is that you keep the genealogy of your family, and you show the relations and connections you’ve found between your mother’s and father’s family—the “ropes,” as you have called them, the bridges...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 466–490.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., and she accepts his offer. Soon after this, Mary and Muna have a wild night together at Muna’s apartment; they drink and do drugs, and Muna binds Mary with rope. Both fall asleep, Muna in her bed topless, and Mary still bound on the couch. In the morning, Ali knocks on Muna’s door with Imam Tariq in tow...
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