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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 332–334.
Published: 01 October 2019
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 187–217.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Kevin Everod Quashie ESSAY The OtherDancerAs Self Girlfriend Selfhood in Toni Morrison's Sula and Alice Walker's TheColorPurple KEVIN EVEROD QUASHIE Near the end of Toni Morrison's Beloved,Paul D returns to find Sethe in bed, exhausted, beaten, and almost hopeless from her struggle with Beloved...
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Published: 01 November 2018
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 205–217.
Published: 01 December 2016
... ) is to have a space where Black women can find healing in others’ moments of clarity about self-love, self-care, mental health, and well-being. Inspired by bell hooks’s discourse on the gaze and rooted in community psychological research with a Womanist approach, the S.O.S. Project builds upon intrinsic...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 261–292.
Published: 01 September 2008
... authority, legitimacy, legibility, and power. Hip-hop porn provides black women and men an arena for labor and accumulation as well as self-presentation, mediation, and mobility. As a space for work, survival, consumption, and identity-formation, the genre proffers an opportunity to explore the gendering...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 31–60.
Published: 01 September 2009
... argue that the emergence and configuration of this patriarchy demonstrates the flexibility of patriarchal ruling. Its formation of new gendered expectations in immigrant settings by no means indicates that the “old” values from the homeland, such as chastity, self-sacrifice, and self abnegation, have...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 25–45.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., or posted. The circulation and the appeal of the poem signals that Black women in various parts of the Americas are collectively using it not only as a tool of self-expression, but also as a point of departure for consciousness-raising, identity formation, and collective action. In a region where Black...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 351–362.
Published: 01 March 2018
.... Walker-Barnes suggests self-awareness as one of a myriad of interventions to combat the internalization of the StrongBlackWoman myth and the multidimensional manifestations of dis-ease it produces in black women. Offering greater specificity to Walker-Barnes’s strategy, this paper identifies the practice...
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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): 528–547.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Chamara Moore Abstract How can Colson Whitehead’s combining of the generic and the strange in his Pulitzer Prize–winning speculative text The Underground Railroad be read as Afro-Pessimist? This essay seeks to illuminate the ways in which Whitehead’s novel provides narratives of self-making...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 417–438.
Published: 01 October 2024
... the modern human’s names lie. The author argues that the “colored skin,” where the dehumanizing names are marked, is the other cultural technology inseparable from the white mask in constituting the colonial naming structure. By understanding skin technology as external to the embodied self, the author...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Jennifer C. Nash Abstract This article examines the consolidation of love into a black feminist politics during second-wave feminism. By reading love-politics as both a practice of the self and a nonidentitarian strategy for constructing political communities, I argue that black feminism's love...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 62–90.
Published: 01 March 2013
... become a subject of intense scrutiny from different segments of society. In 2005 the founder of the organization, Dr. Farhat Hashmi, moved to Mississauga, Ontario, Canada to establish a branch of Al-Huda for diasporic Muslim women. In the months that followed, staunch critiques from self-identified...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 149–171.
Published: 01 March 2014
... many of these texts into dialogue with one another, and she explores as well the dialogue between such texts and the dozens of archival fragments she incorporates into her self-portrait. Copyright © 2014 by Smith College 2014 ERICA L. JOHNSON Buildingthe Neo-Archive: DionneBrand'As Mapto the Door...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 79–98.
Published: 01 March 2016
... imaginary of the altruistic adoption process. This article analyzes how Trenka's stylistic choices, such as a musical and a stand-up comedy routine, capture many Korean adoptees' life experiences. Adoptees like Trenka use life-writing to express a doubled self and to give a platform to those who are rarely...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 7–39.
Published: 01 December 2016
... feminism in general, and #BlackLivesMatter and #SayHerName in particular. The article ultimately demonstrates the importance of women of color feminisms both in and outside of the classroom, as content and as practice, to promote critical self awareness and burgeoning political consciousness...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 435–463.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., phone calls, emails and poetry from across the geographic black diaspora to ethnographically illustrate how black women’s diverse forms of self expression reveal how they write themselves into relationship with other black women. These are the conversations of the sacred, the longings, sorrow...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 491–506.
Published: 01 March 2017
... on the limits and possibilities of traversing geographic and social spaces. Hattie Carmichael, the “City child” who occupies the moral center of the novel, embodies practices of cultural improvisation, self-determination, and intersubjective reciprocity; practices that make it possible for diasporic subjects...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 363–372.
Published: 01 March 2018
... digital self-care practices. Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 ERIN L. BERRY-MCCREA "To My Girls in Therapy, See Imma Tell You This fo Free . . ."1: Black Millennial Women Speaking Truth to Power in and across the Digital Landscape Abstract This paper describes the ways that Black millennial women...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 343–350.
Published: 01 March 2018
....” Normalized chaos is defined as a defense mechanism used by Black women to minimize daily hassels and life situations, viewing them as part of their “normal” life. Normalizing chaos leads to cocreated self-violence and trauma under the guise of martyrdom. By disrupting the narrative of normalized chaos within...