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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 1–38.
Published: 01 March 2004
... by the American media as well as U.S. and Israeli government officials. 26 Thus, I would not want to leave this essay with the implication that photographs of suffering have no value or are only exploitative. Yet,when suffering and violence are the only visual depictions of social conflict, the news media too...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 226–256.
Published: 01 September 2004
... a global alternative to the visual media that dominate the plot of the novel, suggesting the power of a new feminist literary canon that invites the formation of global community. As many readers ofOzeki have noted, the power of visual media in My Yearof Meatsis undercut by the fact that Ozeki chose...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 207–235.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of their human complexity through visual and textual media. The use of the tag with selfies, blog posts, news media links, and other social media redirects the focus of Black women’s identity construction from reacting to problematic representation to creating and disseminating authentic Black womanhoods...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 58–87.
Published: 01 March 2014
... structures and icons that perpetuate limiting representations ofblack identity. In the face of black women's limited influence in the media in question, these writers elucidate the negative impact of visual culture on black women's subjectivity while utilizing narrative resistance to subvert its influence...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 363–372.
Published: 01 March 2018
... millennial women. The interviews centered the thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, and ideologies of these millennials about their social media use in relation to themes of language, race, culture, identity, and health. Black millennial women come to know their experiences on- and off-line as real because...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 52–81.
Published: 01 April 2024
... disrupting binary narratives of tradition vs. modernity. I contend that their creative use of digital media draws on lived experience, embodied knowledge, and spirituality to refuse colonialism’s hyper-individualism and imagine alternative worlds. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Smith College...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 29–59.
Published: 01 March 2013
... visual economy than the objectifying gaze, especially for subjects such as the struggling middle-class Indian Mr. Kapasi, who have limited access to the forms of social and cultural authority that the gaze requires. Although his references to Mina's breasts and throat seem to point to Mr. Kapasi's...
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Meridians (2002) 3 (1): 161–190.
Published: 01 September 2002
... are understood as markers of"Asian-ness. "3 This distinction between socialized race and visualized race is akin to the difference between "gender" and "sex": the former was first critiqued as a performative and constructed category, whereas the latter continued to represent a seemingly less-disputable...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 290–299.
Published: 01 December 2016
... the traditional celebration ofBlack History Month. Students are able to follow how Martin's death updates the trajectory of black protest in a cultural and historically relevant moment. Students examine readings across multiple mediums including blogs, op-eds, and Twitter hash tags. Using social media...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., and abjection. Simply stated, Chavers argued that “#Blackgirlmagic does not change the regularity of Black death and destruction.” This did not sit well with many Black women who took to social media to reject Chavers’s argument and to attack Chavers herself, going even so far as to question her Black identity...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 218–242.
Published: 01 December 2016
...-day interactions and continual participation within the American social activity system (school, work, media, etc we learn to despise AAL"(145). For example, "Ebonics" was a popular topic in the media in the 1990s, often as the subject of disparagement. However, research shows Ebonics is a rule...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 363–388.
Published: 01 December 2020
... or racially based category, however marked it may be by biological, social, and visual signifiers (Burke 1996 ; Peiss 1998 ; Kawashima 2002 ; Hall 2005 ; Hunter 2005 ; Rondilla and Spickard 2007 ; Pierre 2008 ; Glenn 2009 ; Parameswaran and Cardoza 2009 ). For example, when cultural studies scholar...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 414–444.
Published: 01 October 2019
... generation’s post–internal conflict political flight and class struggles from the past. She also returns to the anachronistic term plebeyo in the contemporary, again recalling that the unresolved class struggle of the past continues to inform today’s social injustices. The lyrics, now part of a bold visual...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 436–454.
Published: 01 October 2022
... of altering visual perception as a mourning break. The overlaid red, green, and blue colors of three images from the series ( fig. 11 ) compose the RGB color spaces our eyes are attuned to with present-day digital media and devices. The components of the red image are a ball, rope, and the shadow of a lantern...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 211–235.
Published: 01 September 2008
... and visual representation provide the basis for understanding the major themes in the music and imagery. Lyrical themes include class struggle, self-reliance, male-female relationships, material consumption, black radicalism, female empowerment, and resistance. Resistance can go from social resistance...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 484–507.
Published: 01 December 2020
... feminist work that cuts across imperial feminist practices. Copyright © 2016 Smith College 2016 transnational feminism imperialist feminism Muslim women social and visual media social movements In June 1985 the cover of the National Geographic featured the photograph of “The Afghan Girl...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 5–10.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Nana Osei-Kofi; Shirley Anne Tate Luz María Gordillo’s Essay, “Gendering the Nador/Melilla Border,” analyzes the construction of a permanent, racialized, gendered “Muslim Woman Other” through media coverage, the militarization of the border, and migration policies and practices that normalize...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 15–41.
Published: 01 March 2010
...? Existing studies on skin-whitening phenomena in a variety of countries fall short of answering this question because these studies operate under the assumption that whiteness is an ethnic or racially based category, however marked it may be by biological, social, and visual signifiers (Burke 1996; Peiss...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 65–85.
Published: 01 December 2016
... founded COMPUGIRLS,a technology program for adolescent girls from underserved school districts that offers participants opportunities to work with cutting-edge digital media to encourage computational thinking, affect positive change in their communities, enhance techno-social analytical skills...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 129–156.
Published: 01 September 2015
... demonstrates the need to reappraise both the "glocal" but also gloriental impact of globalization through new visual economies of scale. Conclusion This article contributes to several interdisciplinary fields, such as area/ border studies, globalization studies, transnational feminism, and media culture...