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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 104–123.
Published: 01 March 2005
... critiqued the gender role of strength and data from an interview study with twelve black women of diverse weights, I connect their construction of"strength" to the reality of compulsive overeating among black women. In the process I suggest that this "body problem" may be productively viewed as a muted...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 351–362.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Courtney Bryant Abstract In her book Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength , Chanequa Walker-Barnes (2014) offers a theological analysis of the myth of the “StrongBlackWoman,” a trope that suggests that black women do not have the same human needs or experience pain like others...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 463–483.
Published: 01 December 2020
... often warp Tubman’s contributions by presenting her as an exceptional but lone figure, by animating stereotypes of Black women’s unparalleled strength, or by fragmenting her activism via single-issue lenses. Critics also draw on maternal or salvific frames to soften Tubman’s militancy or enfold her...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 370–395.
Published: 01 October 2021
... women interviewed by the author in Karachi and Islamabad. She argues that the espousal of secularism by feminists as a political cultural discourse in South Asia can initiate a politics that challenges hegemonic notions of self, community, and nation that are gaining strength in Pakistan. This position...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 28–49.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., or flatten. Tubman is often discussed as an exceptional but lone figure or in ways that animate stereotypes of black women's unparalleled strength. Her life's work is also often fragmented, meaning that her varied activism and different forms of coalition-building remain undertheorized and under-recognized...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 333–342.
Published: 01 March 2018
... in African American women. I came across an article in Essence by Diane Weathers (1998) that described the self-sacrificing role and experiences of African American women who felt obligated to project images of strength while attempting to manage inordinate levels of stress through self-sacrifice...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 343–350.
Published: 01 March 2018
... on the tenets of both to garner strength, and as examples of why I fight for social justice and equity. What I have overlooked as a feminist and a womanist is the practice and importance of self-care and self-love as foundational tenets of my mental health and wellness. The above quote is an example of the type...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 276–285.
Published: 01 March 2018
... exposes Black women survivors to high rates of community violence (Richie 2012; West 2016). At the same time, Black women survivors are remarkably resilient, active help-seekers who utilize internal sources of strength, such as their spirituality and self-reliance. They physically fight back to defend...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 130–152.
Published: 01 September 2001
... but not to waste time discrediting their fellow Black brothers and sisters. (4) It appears from this statement that criticism was identified as a potentially divisive tactic, and difference was not explored as an area of possible strength. In its attempt to prioritize solidarity, BC denied the existence...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 286–294.
Published: 01 March 2018
... resources. Self-defined leadership included terms such as strength, resilience, spiritual, empowerment, problem solvers, gatekeepers, respectful, and genuine. "Pulling together" and "setting the agenda" operationalized their style of leadership. An "advocacy spirit" was necessary at the decision-making...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 38–68.
Published: 01 September 2006
...," words inspired by Marcus Garvey and later popularized by Bob Marley. According to the sculptor, Laura Facey-Cooper, the RedemptionSongmonument represents healing, "the water washes away the pain, angst and suffering of slavery. The figures rise having transcended the past, standing in strength, unity...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2009
..., we can reintroduce some of the strengths ofidentity politics. This is not to fetishize racialized and gendered bodies, but to tap the mobilizing force of personal experience and to rebuild some of the community power stripped by daily encounters with state violence and repression. Maroon Abolitionism...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 56–70.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., the house that protects and gives us strength to challenge exclusions. What we call "exclusions" are in fact non-privileged identities, they are the "other", those identities that do not enjoy the hegemonic benefits of social norms. The dominant discourse posits a kind of equality between the dominant...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): v–x.
Published: 01 March 2003
... women of color's lives. In her painting, Piedade,Mexican American artist Gabriela Mufioz brings to life one ofToni Morrison's characters in Paradiseand, in so doing, connects her own heritage to that of African Americans; she makes visible the agony and strength of an earthly life transcended, only...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 121–148.
Published: 01 March 2014
... self-sufficiency and cultural independence that the protagonist tragically lacks. After feeding Invisible Man a pork sandwich, which gives our hero enough strength to partially free himself from one of the restraints holding him, Mary Rambo administers a root to empower the hero to release himself...
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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 1–27.
Published: 01 March 2016
... to make groceries. She tell you what to buy and the list at the shop. So when you want something you can't have it!" (R-1) "My coworker is selfish. I slam her on the spot, 'Why are you selfish? Only when you want any help then you come to me. (HR-2) IV. RESILIENCY (Theme 8) Strength, coping...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 283–288.
Published: 01 March 2002
... are being attacked, regardless of where these Muslims actually come from. These people also recognize who this fight is against. And we should recognize that it is due to the strength of anti-racist organizing that President Bush has been forced to visit mosques, that Prime Minister Chretien has been forced...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 1–8.
Published: 01 September 2014
... as a mere footnote when the events for which she is famous-abolitionism, women's suffrage, emancipation, and the Civil War-are commemorated. She was considered a "superwoman" of considerable strength, even though she remained physically disabled for most of her ninety-one years due to a severe injury during...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 36–57.
Published: 01 March 2014
... solidly in the narrative frame of the original Greek myth, Clifton's Leda poems make allusions to Biblical stories, especially as they parallel her writing on the visitation and impregnation of Mary by Almighty God. Yeats seems to ask if, somehow, Zeus's strength is transferred to his victim in the midst...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 261–277.
Published: 01 October 2019
... anticolonial demands, as the floor to change the oppressive living conditions for all. The intensity of working-class, rural, and urban organizing, alongside alliances with the progressive middle classes, finally gave the anticolonial movement around the world the strength it needed to win. Colonial powers...