...Nishaun T. Battle Abstract “From Slavery to Jane Crow to Say Her Name” examines the ongoing social movement in the United States by Black women activists and intellectuals from as early as the nineteenth century to present day contemporary movements and campaigns such as Say Her Name, which began...

... of the river bottom, we called her Stella because no matter who come after her, she always managed to steal away. Now, some folk say Stella mama was a real bad seed, contrary kind of soul, always running. Say the last time she run, her whitefolks dug a hole in the ground and put her in there, belly baby-swole...

... is a legacy of struggle and a legacy of activism. I often say that you know that black people, people of African 124 MERIDIANS 12:2 heritage, were instrumental in their own liberation from enslavement because of the fact that we still exist here in great numbers in the United States. There are a lot...

... behind you," explains Sarah, speaking with a slow southern drawl and revealing a gold-capped front tooth. "They'd feel on you, and ask where you live. And say that if they could come by and see you, they'd put you on an easier job." "They were right behind you all the time," recalls another Delta...

... at Delta Pride were also subjected to sexual harassment by White male supervisors. “They would come up behind you,” explains Sarah, speaking with a slow southern drawl and revealing a gold-capped front tooth. “They’d feel on you, and ask where you live. And say that if they could come by and see you...

.... In fact the doubt that I face every day when I turn to the blank page makes me feel like what I'm about to say may be an exaggeration (laughs), but I think that the way that publication works for a literary artist is to reinforce the idea that the world may be willing to lend an ear. So I think...

... throwing up or falling off a bicycle. If they can get the first part ofit right, the "Kha" part, it comes out like clearing your throat after eating ice cream. Usually they say Kadeeja, though, which sounds clattering clumsy. It never comes out my mother's soft way; she makes it sound almost pretty. It's...

... scent of wool, cash, and cigarettes-jangling their keys like a threat. I met Alan when I was sitting with Angela. Sometimes I wonder ifhe wasn't really coming over to talk to her. Isn't everyone always hedging his bets? Angela says, "I don't think you knew me, or you wouldn't say that." There was always...

... to come to school here. Both ofus had dreams ofleaving the rust-belt Midwest but later learned that our homes were a source of strength. Gloria concluded her essay "College Reunion" by saying, "How odd to find after all these years, that I might owe my survival to the very East Toledo neighborhood I...

...? A desire for beauty? You'd have liked to become a decorator, he said. Then he said you hadn't talked in two weeks. He feeds you, like a baby bird, with an eyedropper. Youwanted to become a decorator? In the hospital you say to me, "Remember you had a flute." [Meridians:feminismr,ace,transnationalism2008...

..., the smartest kid in the class, has just walked hand over hand from one end of the monkey bars to the other twice. Now he hangs upside down. "Can I play?" I say in a squeaky voice. Roy reaches up and grabs hold of the bar. Small for his age, like me, he is very strong. He will become my friend...

... not just spoken words but writing and visual images—all the materials that give an institution interiority, as if it has a face, as well as feelings, thoughts, or judgments. They might say, for example, “the university regrets,” or just simply, “we regret.” More specifically, in this paper, I examine...

.... They might say, for example, "the university regrets," or just simply, "we regret." More specifically, in this paper, I examine documents that are authorized by institutions (such as race-equality policies, which are often signed by, say, the vice-chancellor on behalf of an institution), make claims about...

... wounds or lashes covering her legs. “This is my daughter Jane, the Widow says. Those lashes may save her life” (Morrison 2008 : 127). Jane, it is intimated, is being accused of witchcraft, and the lashes that her mother inflicts are meant to demonstrate that Jane is not a demon. The perverse logic...

... to know what happened, no one has left the bus because it’s too hot and too crowded outside. The bus driver says, shaking his head like an old, wise man, another boy of no more than twenty! Oh, the same thing, some big lorry going too fast, hit the scooter. Both dead on the spot. One old man, one young...

... a tricky thing after you choose an umbrella, because, well, we don't always have that much in common. SOBEIRA LATORRE: What do you mean when you say hispana? TANYA SARACHO: We don't see hispanato mean the same thing as Hispanic. Byusing hispanawe are not saying "Hispanic." We mean what you are called when...

... is that there are profound injustices in the global order-profound injustices which are rooted in colonialism and imperialism. Third World women, I want to say for decades, but I need to say for centuries, have been making the point that there can be no women's emancipation, in fact no liberation, unless the fundamental...

..., and that to have too strong an idea of audience would be to censor oneself and to render the writing suspect in some fashion because one would be stopping oneself. Youknow, "I want to say this because this person wants to hear it, or that LAVINA SHAN KAR RE-VISIONING MEMOIRS OLD AND NEW 33 because Ywants to hear...

... because my father had been a wonderful baseball player and had gotten an offer to go to Cuba and come back and say he was a Cuban, so that he could play baseball. He was also offered a four-year scholarship to Syracuse University. Well, the story that always went around our family was, he said...