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...Ruth J. Simmons Copyright © 2002 Wesleyan University Press, now published by Duke University Press on behalf of Smith College 2002 meridians : What made you want to help set up a journal like Meridians at Smith College? ruth j. simmons : I spent some time at Spelman College...

...Ruth J. Simmons Copyright © 2000 by Wesleyan University Press 2000 Foreword The American academy undeniably has been shaped by the individual scholars and teachers whose knowledge, values, cultures, ideologies, and preferred approaches have determined not only what is studied in our colleges...

...-hop mogul Russell Simmons chose to commemorate her legacy by releasing a highly offensive web video titled "Harriet Tubman Sex Tape." In it, Harriet Tubman's character, played by YouTubecomedienne Shanna Malcolm, can be seen willingly cajoling the master into sex, and even penetrating him...

...Karsonya Wise Whitehead Copyright © 2014 by Smith College 2014 KARSONYA WISE WHITEHEAD 1 HarrietTubman: FromMaternaMl othertoJezebel I. The Power of Change On August 19, 2013,Judith G. Bryant, the great-great-grandniece of Harriet Tubman, shared with me her concerns about Russell Simmons's...

... a "sex tape." Youread that correctly. Recently, in an Internet launch of his new YouTube channel, All Def Digital, rap media mogul Russell Simmons featured a failed comedic video titled "Harriet Tubman SexTape"-the first in the line-up of this new series. It didn't take long for black audiences on social...

... conceptualizationosferotics. On August 14, 2013, the All Def Digital YouTube channel launched with a video titled "The Harriet Tubman Sex Tape." Mogul and former DefJam [Meridians:feminismra, cet,ransnationalism2014, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 169-195] © 2014 by Smith College.All rights reserved. 169 President Russell Simmons...

...-to retrieveacts that may createor recreategenderedselves.Theyillustratequite clearlythe transgressivepotential ofperformance. NOTES 1. Diane Simmons refers to "Girl" as the story in which Kincaid finds her voice as a writer (Simmons 1994,47-56).Also, in UnderstandinJgamaicaKincaidJ,ustin D. Edwards notes...

..., and Susan Van Dyne decided to establish Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism at Smith College. They did so in order to center knowledges produced by and about women of color who critically integrated and interrogated feminist, racial, and transnational concerns. Serendipitously, Ruth Simmons, who...

... present in mind and body (Simmons 2015 , 190). The inaugural dinner attracted “the President and some of the Deans,” all of whom stood in the balcony in accordance with the letter of noninvitation. Adding the statement, “As painful and unheard of as it was, the dinner was planned without including...

... Jayne Mercier Patricia Mohammed John Mraz Sara Pie Paulette Pierce Kevin Quashie Ravi Rajan Priti Ramamurthy Sean Redding Lynn Roberts Noliwe Rooks Jeffrey Rubin Andrea Rushing Maureen Scanlon Suzana Sawyer Denise Segura Ann Shanahan Ruth Simmons Silvia Spitta Vicky Spelman Gloria Steinem Banu...

... JosnaRege Judith Rollins ParamaRoy Andrea Rushing ZohraSaed Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo Ranu Samantrai Karen Sanchez- Eppler Maureen Scanlon Sejal Shah Tracy Sharpley- Whiting Ruth J. Simmons Andrea Smith Kimberly Springer Leslie Starr Gloria Steinem Michelle Stephens AbhaSur Seira Tamang Krystyna von...

... away from empty platitudes and toward empowering platforms. As Smith College President Ruth Simmons wrote in her foreword to volume 1, number 1, at Meridians , “we believe that issues affecting the lives of women of color must be given greater attention and support and that such support, both public...

... History, and teaches part time at Simmons College in Boston. Dr. Larson has also served as the consulting historian for the National Park Service's Harriet TubmanSpeciaRl esourcSetudy,resulting in legislation for the Harriet TubmanNationalHistoricalParkAct,now awaiting approval in Congress. Most recently...

... of Ruth J. Simmons, then President of Smith College, whose vision for a venue where women of color could publish their work and have it taken seriously and on its own terms is now being realized. That the Ford Foundation also supports this initiative is a testament to the innovative character...

...). 3 Scholars are Ruth Nicole Brown ( 2013 ), Tamara T. Butler ( 2018 ), Marcia Chatelain ( 2015 ), Venus E. Evans-Winters ( 2014 ), Corinne T. Field, Tammy Charelle-Owens, Marcia Chatelain, LaKisha Michelle Simmons, Abosede George, Rhian Keyse in Field et al. ( 2016 ), Dominique C. Hill ( 2019...

.... Chancy, have, with commitment, hard work, and skill, set Meridianson such an extraordinary course of excellence. Since its inception under the Smith presidency ofRuth J. Simmons in 2000, they have been remarkable stewards in sustaining the task set out in the introduction of the journal's first issue...

... such an extraordinary course of excellence. Since its inception under the Smith presidency of Ruth J. Simmons in 2000, they have been remarkable stewards in sustaining the task set out in the introduction of the journal's first issue: "to provide a forum for the finest scholarship and creative expression by and about...

... Kiran Asher, Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Mirangela Buggs, Odette Casamayor, Alexandrina Deschamps, Anilyn Dfaz, Vicenta Moreno Hurtado, Manuela Picq, and Kimberly Simmons. Still other contributors to our two-part special issue participated in a highly productive two-panel session on "Black/Afro-descendant...

... 1. I use Third World to refer to regions in Africa, Asia (excluding Japan), the Middle East, and Latin America. 2. I should like to thank Ruth Simmons, President of Smith College, the person who had the vision to imagine Meridians,for her unwavering support for the journal and myself. John Connolly...