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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 15–41.
Published: 01 March 2010
...L. Ayu Saraswati Abstract Previous scholarship on the immense popularity of skin-whitening frames this practice as revealing women's desire to emulate whiteness and upper class white populations (Burke 1996; Peiss 1998; Hall 2005). Others have focused on whitening practices to highlight the working...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 363–388.
Published: 01 December 2020
...L. Ayu Saraswati Abstract Previous scholarship on the immense popularity of skin-whitening frames this practice as revealing women’s desire to emulate whiteness and upper class White populations. Others have focused on whitening practices to highlight the working of racialized color hierarchy...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 440–445.
Published: 01 October 2023
... relief from the summer heat, from the weight of your being in my body. Your movement within me like a ripple, a throb without the ache, I could sometimes trace the outline of your arm or leg bowed against the tautness of my belly, the boundary of my skin enfolding you. What marks of my own being...
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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 (2022) 21 (1): 293–295.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Teri Ellen Cross Davis Abstract Often the narrative on dark skin in America has been dominated by Eurocentric standards of beauty. White supremacy dictated dark skin to be unattractive and lesser than light skin. This poem explores the rich beauty of darkness in the natural world, from fruit...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 103–128.
Published: 01 September 2015
... representations of domestic workers' dark-skinned female bodies as sites where race, gender, and class asymmetries meet and sustain one another. Copyright © 2015 by Smith College 2015 PATRICIA DE SANTANA PINHO The Dirty Body that Cleans: Representations of Domestic Workers in Brazilian Common Sense Abstract...
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Meridians (2002) 3 (1): 161–190.
Published: 01 September 2002
... women's studies department, and the question of "white imitation" was raised. A brief discussion of"non-white" women desiring to mold themselves after "white" ideals-pale skin, lightcolored hair, etc. -proceeded verysympathetically by contextualizing the phenomenon within hegemonic colonial...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 84–89.
Published: 01 April 2021
...-woman skin, she has tales to tell. Tonight, her story is about the water-fairy and her little prince. How body, bones and all, they walked into the river and flowed into the sea. So now, I have a body no more. I did. The thought of her happiness made me sad. I wanted my babies to be happy...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 26–35.
Published: 01 September 2011
... of the world -inscribed in America's forethought. For the historical record: African - Coloured Negro - Afro-American African American Womanhood! 26 MERIDIANS 11:1 Haibu1n: TranslatioonfSamsonL'sette(r1764) I bear no vestige of whips and shackles but the burden offreedom weighs heavily in my skin. I have in my...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 162–182.
Published: 01 September 2006
... Racialized as a hybrid, mestizon, egrat,riguefiap,rieta,morenao, r mulatawoman, an "organic metaphor of the three roots: Tafoo, Spaniard, and African" (Duany 2002, 19). I have been situated throughout my life in a complex racial system. Phenotype, hair texture, skin pigmentation, social class status...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 20–24.
Published: 01 March 2003
...Gina Ulysse Copyright © 2003 by Wesleyan University Press 2003 GINA ULYSSE HomagTe oThoseWhoHollereBdeforMe e Silence chose me I didn't choose silence silence immobilized me I could not breathe in my own skin without breaking the silence I could not live in the castle of my skin as I came...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 244–246.
Published: 01 April 2019
.... Eventually we learned not to ask for things, not even to want them. Even desire was pared from us. Our salt was no name. Our milk. Our clothes. Ourselves. In their plain white boxes with blue writing, the label of No Money fell on us through these objects, stuck to our skin, told us that we ourselves...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 80–86.
Published: 01 March 2004
... to ask me how my day went, undress me and clean my soiled clothes. Instead my feet walked me to the stairs and up to my bedroom. I shut the door. "Anaey, ou home?" "ChyeMai," I yell through the wood. In the shower, I see little droplets form, my skin covered in the mint oil. Clean, I climbed on top...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 22–50.
Published: 01 December 2020
... are presented as an instructive selection from a larger study (Candelario 2000 ). The importance of hair as a defining race marker highlights the centrality of beauty practices. Hair, after all, is an alterable sign. Hair that is racially compromising can be mitigated with care and styling. Skin color...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 128–156.
Published: 01 September 2000
.... Skin color and facial features, conversely, are less pliant or not as easily altered. That Dominicans have equated whiteness both with lo indio, an ethno-racial identity based on identification with the decimated Taino natives of the island that now houses the Dominican Republic and "lo Hispano...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 49–63.
Published: 01 March 2008
... FATHER 53 MEENA ALEXANDER RitesofSense In twilight as she lies on a mat I rub my mother's feet with jasmine oil touch calluses under skin, joints upholding that fraught original thingbone, gristle, skin, all that makes her mine. All day she swabbed urine from the floor, father's legs so weak he clung...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 107–130.
Published: 01 September 2018
...) describes the trope of the doudou in French West Indian literature as a kind of “Antillean grammarbook” with which all Antillean women must contend in their attempts at self-representation. As a literary-historical trope, the doudou usually refers to a caste of mixed-race (as opposed to darker-skinned...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 146–168.
Published: 01 April 2023
.... The white men laugh in jest at their friend’s futility. Maier-Preusker suggests the painting references the biblical scene of Jeremiah 13:23, which asks whether or not a leopard can change his spots, or an Ethiopian his skin. This is perhaps a modern amalgamation with Aesop’s fable of the man who thought...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 14–31.
Published: 01 April 2020
... the parts could be enjoyed Slit her open from navel to stern! Like a hog But the child who is born on the Sabbath day Is bonnie and blithe and good and gay 3 Lying in the dirt baptized by blood and fire The child cried out Baby Turner Fragile baby never felt skin-to-skin Only...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 58.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Odilia Rivera Copyright © 2001 by Wesleyan University Press 2001 GARDENS OdiliaRivera The porch is white a dark-skinned man wears a white suit I sneak into his backyard to eat yellow flowers; orange is not my color at five years old, the smell of green cigars drew me to his garden...
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