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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 169–195.
Published: 01 September 2014
... of sexual transactions as a liberatory tool for enslaved black women, responses to the digital short shed light upon uncomfortable and complicated interpretations of the role of sex, sexuality, sexual economies, and sexual violence played in black lives during chattel slavery. Situating Tubman at the center...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 109–136.
Published: 01 December 2016
...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...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (1): 150–162.
Published: 01 September 2018
... important contributions is in juxtaposing the absences of the enslaved in the archive with the very real and present repercussions of what she calls the “aftereffects” of slavery on contemporary Black people, such as being subject to state violence. Hartman’s extraordinary work carries its own aftereffects...
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in Making Democracy Real: African American Women, Birth Control, and Social Justice, 1910–1960
> Meridians
Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 2. 1835 engraving by Patrick Reason, in George Bourne, Slavery Illustrated in Its Effects Upon Woman and Domestic Society (1837).
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in Making Democracy Real: African American Women, Birth Control, and Social Justice, 1910–1960
> Meridians
Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 1. Document recording William H. Cane’s sale of “a certain negro girl named Neely” to a new owner, January 1858. Slavery/Anti-slavery Collection, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts (hereafter SSC).
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 78–98.
Published: 01 September 2014
... exploitation and gender degradation. Female runaways and refugees reasoned that their dual desires could be achieved in Canada, both because slavery had been abolished there via the Imperial Act of 1834 and because Queen Victoria's reign, starting in 1837, gave the impression of greater esteem and rights...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 123–147.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Lauren J. Gantz Abstract This article argues that in her novel, At the Full and Change of the Moon (1999), Dionne Brand uses archives/archiving as a trope by which to trace slavery's aftereffects on the Caribbean and its diasporas. African diasporic authors and critics have long emphasized...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 65–84.
Published: 01 April 2020
... relief, femicide, and policing, this article attends to deep histories of slavery, revolt, and marronage as resources for a feminist rejection of the liberal notions of freedom that make indebtedness possible. Copyright © 2020 Smith College 2020 debt marronage globalization structural...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 255–278.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Daphne A. Brooks Abstract As numerous scholars have shown, Hurricane Katrina exacerbated the already-ongoing precarity of African American communities in New Orleans. The crisis demanded a reckoning with the afterlives of slavery at the national and global level. This article focuses on the work...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 480–505.
Published: 01 October 2022
... the domestic maternal passage as her transfer from white mother to mistress, a passage that sets in motion her exile from home and entrance into the hell of slavery. This passage is procreative of her social death and an open wound in her memory of mother loss and her mother hunger. Moreover, she is plagued...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 334–349.
Published: 01 October 2022
... to the world of the book’s reader. Lashed to a language that promises our undoing, the reader—like the women in the novel—confronts the originary violences of patriarchy, settler colonialism, and slavery that define the newness of the “New World.” [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Smith College 2022...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 528–547.
Published: 01 October 2024
... chattel slavery and thus forced to come of age before the bulk of the novel, her experience cannot be constrained to a genre defined primarily by Eurocentric traditions and frames of reference. In this way, “girlhood” has never been a possibility for her, making the novel’s ambiguous ending a clearer Afro...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 49–72.
Published: 01 April 2022
... as spiral has moved Jamaica in circles and forward to a new moment that is neither the beginning nor end of slavery. In the four hundred odd pages contained between those two utterances of Lilith’s name, the island has been rocked by an uprising, which does not overthrow the system of slavery but brings...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 50–77.
Published: 01 September 2014
... recent slave past of American history. However, the tableau ofTubman with her gun, or directing her band of fugitive slaves to freedom-as created by our celebrated artists-provides us with a different "freedom dream," if only briefly glimpsed within the stranglehold of American slavery.' Tubman 54...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 28–51.
Published: 01 March 2001
..., particularly under the rubrics of "trafficking" and "sexual slavery."The assumption commonly underpinning the widespread interest it has aroused is that the sex trade is premised upon a universal principle of male violence to women. Indeed, even though several feminists and scholars, including this author...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 71–87.
Published: 01 September 2016
... to be marginalized later from 'respectable' political community" (James 1999, 44). Although Black women have fought for the principles of gendered racial democracy' globally since the colonialism/slavery period, our historical figures-some of whom self-identified as Black feminists and some whom we might consider...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2009
... by direct confrontations with the prison-industrial complex and imbued with the historical memory of slavery and rebellion. In the 1970s, political prisoners like Angela Y.Davis and Assata Shakur in conjunction with other radical activists and scholars in the U.S., Canada, and Europe began to shape a new...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 478–502.
Published: 01 October 2023
... that institutionalized slavery. Slavery—a system based on white supremacy and the complete social and cultural subordination of Black persons—dehumanized Black life, which made it nearly impossible to respect Black death. There was no space for remembering three-dimensional Black people. There was only space...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 490–509.
Published: 01 October 2024
... through precolonial trans-Saharan and trans-Mediterranean slavery (Montana 2013 ; Oualdi 2020 ; Walz and Cuno 2011 ), through the French colonization of Tunisia, as well as through postcolonial migration from Tunisia to France that continues today. As a part of the postindependence nation-building...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 October 2023
... on an annually extended temporary contract in the University of Virginia’s Global Studies program. Through an analysis of some select experiences of being part of a workplace that was mostly “white,” in an institution inseparable from its legacies of slavery and white privilege, I offer this lived experience...
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