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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 382–392.
Published: 01 March 2018
... significance of informal helping networks, spirituality, and interdependence found in the Black community. Based in Africana Womanism, an exploration of healing modalities in traditional African societies reveals the influential role of hair and spirituality in holistic wellness practices. Therefore...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 52–81.
Published: 01 April 2024
... with landed status in Canada. Taken together, the artists’ works offer fruitful opportunities to think through difficult questions about power, history, and representation on Turtle Island. Both Nielsen and Park engage “pedagogies of the Sacred” to honor ancestral traditions and spiritual practices while...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 351–362.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., more valid way for black women to discover their feelings and understand their reality. It does so by reconnecting them with their physical and spiritual being, offering a theological reinterpretation of strength that privileges vulnerability and reconciling the dissociated parts of their humanness...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 17–40.
Published: 01 April 2019
... of capturing the gendered, raced, classed, spiritual, and patriotic dynamics through which notions of motherhood in Mexico were structured. The national maternal rose to prominence as women and progressive leaders challenged exacting patriarchal family arrangements. Copyright © 2019 Smith College 2019...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 36–57.
Published: 01 March 2014
... mystic spirituality linked to broader diasporic understandings of the sacred. RACHEL ELIZABETH HARDING Authority,History,and Everyday Mysticismin the Poetryof Lucille Clifton: A WomanistView Abstract LucilleClifton,a northern-bornwomanwith Southernroots,wasa writerof profound illuminationand...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of gender complexity and multiplicity within women's prisons and the anti-prison movement. The article explores the activists' motivations for involvement, and barriers to participation, and explores spirituality as a source of resilience and guidance. It examines the participants' political analysis...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 295–307.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., the author analyzes the therapeutic functions of bèlè performance from a womanist theoretical framework in order to uncover the interrelationship among Black women’s sensual expressivity, spirituality, and emotional wellness in Martinique. This research relies on qualitative data analysis and a reflexive...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 73–74.
Published: 01 April 2022
... destination. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Smith College 2022 diaspora Blackness identity spirituality womanism There are roadmaps in my great-great-grandmother’s braids. She keeps seeds in there too because where we are going, home must come with us. Tell me how...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 158–175.
Published: 01 September 2001
... for the alignment of a variety of oppositional social movements such as mestizaje. Transnational feminisms thus open up the possibility for women of color to be a "country people," if not bound by a common geographical site, then by a common location in consciousness, a common psychic and spiritual terrain emerging...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 329–332.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Layli Maparyan Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 LAYLI MAPARYAN Womanism and Black Women's Health Womanism is spiritual movement. It is spiritual movement individual, collective toward the realization of our fundamental Innate Divinity. It is movement through healing toward wellness...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 219–229.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of this special issue is our notions of holistic health and well-being. Each contribution reflects some aspect of what we deem as essential elements and domains of health and well-being: spiritual, emotional, mental, physical, and collective. The spiritual domain acknowledges the ancestral spirit that threads our...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 71–87.
Published: 01 September 2016
... 79 most distinctly in her articulation of the relationship between quilombo(as practice), the Black body and the transcendentalism of African spirituality. Nascimento engages with an age-old question for African Diaspora scholars: in what ways does the body become the primary territorial homeland...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 114–146.
Published: 01 March 2013
... giving and receiving in her give-away poem, a theme that circulates within U.S. third-world feminism's spiritualism. Her act of giving as receiving rewrites 126 MERIDIANS 11:2 imperial histories of exchange that structure the figure of La Vendidaassimilation into whiteness, Chicano treachery-through...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 332–359.
Published: 01 October 2024
... , no. 5 : 550 – 57 . Fisher Melissa . 2017 . “ White Corporate Feminine Spirituality: The Rise of Global Professional Women’s Conferences in the New Millennium .” In Ethnographies of Conferences and Trade Fairs , edited by Leivestad Høyer and Nyqvist Anette , 43 – 63 . London...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 205–235.
Published: 01 March 2004
... involvement with black art; and in these texts the creation of art that expresses the humanity of African peoples is considered to be a spiritual calling. 14 Even an artist with obvious imperfections partakes of the divine: "Sassafrass felt the doors open and there he was- the cosmic lover and wonder...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 April 2024
... in that they suffer “population-level harms” caused by the hegemonic economic, political, social, and cultural orders that sustain settler colonial power. Thus, responding to trauma necessarily entails political as well as psychological, emotional, and spiritual interventions that address cause as much as effect...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 326–328.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., equal access to education, the right to organize for social change and the right to choose, practice and have respect for traditional spiritual and healing practices. 4) The use of Self-Help to build and nurture our relationships and to facilitate our work 5) The recognition that women's lived...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 94–120.
Published: 01 June 2016
... termed the "wave of black clearance," is, in part, their love for and spiritual connection to the sea that forms the backyard of their urban neighborhood. It is important to recognize that in addition to its economic value for coastal residents and developers alike, the sea and African religious...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 74–92.
Published: 01 September 2008
... the name Anaya Alimah 6) after building my own studio, as a way to reconcile my passion for music and my research. In my music, I also infuse my spiritual beliefs with hip-hop culture. "More Than Usual" is a song that grapples with class, race, gender, and music industry politics, reflecting the spirit...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 304–331.
Published: 01 October 2019
..., land, and water based on Kanaka Maoli beliefs mobilized Native Hawaiians to revive their cultural, political, and spiritual values and reclaim land. Kahoʻolawe represented an important locale to stage these protests. The island served as a “spiritual center,” the physical incarnation of the sea god...
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