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Meridians (2016) 13 (2): 99–122.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Marlo Starr Abstract In Ruth Ozeki's 2013 novel A Tale for the Time Being , sixteen-year-old Nao faces severe bullying and sexual violence at her new school in Japan. Seeking escape, she experiments with different identities, turning first to the Internet and then later to Zen Buddhist practices...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 521–524.
Published: 01 March 2017
... Iuxuries Sl'-TIME, SPACE, aaa qui,t, a tatlanticc,.us a lovely "'a:averse the ocean. LOOK-IN FOR [U, U] I FIMe-ASE a r eh? lux URI s p a qui t t atl n cru qui t I e s remains quit er i lo ly ay remains ly sea levels love oceantravest ly 3. stilllifewithskull:searchin trsty ocean 0 C e n0 e n a Ca a 0 ona 0...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 114–146.
Published: 01 March 2013
...”—the one who is returned as an empowering Chicana figure. Drawing on and extending theories of queer temporality, I consider the way time passes and is recuperated by queer Chicanas who rewrite nationalist temporalities. Although nationalist projects structure La Vendida through heterosexual and capitalist...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 102–108.
Published: 01 March 2004
... to change these imbalances of power. EffectivOerganizinignTerribTleimes: TheStrategiVc alueofHumanRightfsor TransnationaAlnti-RacisFt eminisms BY BARBARA SCHULMAN These are terrible times, and terrible times require those committed to social change to rethink our approaches-not only to ensure that we remain...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 October 2023
... politics has enabled me to learn about and reflect on the complexities of my racialization in the United States. I am able to see a caste Hindu becoming Brown in a town like Charlottesville, and the importance of talking of both racist and casteist practices together in contemporary times. The privileged...
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Meridians (2025) 24 (1): 237–260.
Published: 01 April 2025
... practiced by Zapotec communities are resilient and creative forms for reproducing Indigenous epistemologies in times of social strife. This essay addresses two main questions: Why are Indigenous healing practices meaningful for Zapotec members who experience emotional injuries like susto or profound sadness...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 141–162.
Published: 01 March 2010
...” versus “them” mentality. I analyze the discourse of empire, a metaphor that has been used time after time to construct a mythical and menacing Other. In contrast, the portrait of Asian women in cinema and television news as traditional, veiled, and inhabiting a separate sphere adds to this representation...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 204–232.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of national elected office at the same time that black feminists were institutionalizing their activism into organizations, Chisholm bridged grassroots and local activism with the national state. She also bridged the ongoing black freedom struggle and women's movements, though not without complication...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 238–252.
Published: 01 March 2018
... black women’s health research agenda that emanates from such a systems paradigm. The agenda would frame black women’s health and well-being as emerging from complex interactions among several causal factors acting at multiple levels and shifting over time. I believe that black women academics and those...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 389–409.
Published: 01 December 2020
... an “us” versus “them” mentality. This article analyzes the discourse of empire, a metaphor that has been used time after time to construct a mythical and menacing Other. In contrast, the portrait of Asian women in cinema and television news as traditional, veiled, and inhabiting a separate sphere adds...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 436–454.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Amanda Russhell Wallace Abstract There is no encapsulated decisive moment in mourning. Rather, it manifests as time based and time oriented collaging amalgamated from broad notions of the archive. Particularly, the author’s practice of historical collaging interlaces the past and present...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 53–73.
Published: 01 September 2008
... a movement away from the Reagan/Bush era that characterized not only the teenage years of hip-hop culture, but important cultural and economic advances of the Black community. At the same time, this decade marks the shift to the more “liberal” Clinton administration, where the advances of previous...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 99–122.
Published: 01 September 2014
... such as Tubman and Watkins Harper could lend their time and finances to abolitionism largely because they were not married. Eluding popular stereotypes of single black women as criminals and deviants, Tubman and Watkins Harper instead etched out more favorable reputations through the rhetoric of single...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 46–55.
Published: 01 September 2016
... movement in Latin America and the Caribbean is going through difficult times, this article considers the role of radical decolonial politics in the creation of a particular strain of thinking that would allow the movement to understand the specific configuration of these systems of domination, to overcome...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 88–117.
Published: 01 September 2016
... in Brazil or Cuba to author a fictional novel or testimonial autobiography. Although separated by time and place, they were united in their projection of a black racial pride that transcended the racist marginalization inflicted upon them and their communities. Each was an unacknowledged theorist of race...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 186–203.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Cheryl Toman Abstract In 1978, Cameroonian author and playwright Werewere Liking moved to Abidjan, Côte-d'lvoire where she was able to find an artistic freedom and energy that was not possible at the time in her native Cameroon. In Abidjan, she created the artistic center and residence known...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 53–77.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Denise Noble Abstract This article deploys an intersectional, transnational, and postcolonial approach to uncovering what is repressed and connoted in recent pronouncements that multiculturalism in Britain has failed and that it is time for Britain to return to a lost, indigenous, “active, muscular...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 330–352.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and tradition appears to take the discussion into a pre-colonial past as in many of Wole Soyinka’s plays. My reading of Onwueme’s play claims that the past is not an idealized space and time but rather a strategy used by the dramatist to comment on postcolonial realities and polities. As an arrangement...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 435–463.
Published: 01 March 2017
... that generate intimate connections across time and space. Copyright © 2017 Smith College 2017 CELESTE HENERY And so I WriteYou:Practicesin BlackWomen's Diaspora Abstract Thisessayproposedsiasporasa lovestory-a taleofhowblackwomencreatenewpossibilities...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 250–270.
Published: 01 October 2020
... of the postbellum South, poor black women discerned and wrested an opportunity to covertly resist economic racism. Unable to attenuate or eradicate structural racism, black women treated racism as a weakness that, at times, made whites vulnerable to manipulation. As long as judges’ legal decisions left the white...