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in Making Democracy Real: African American Women, Birth Control, and Social Justice, 1910–1960
> Meridians
Published: 01 April 2019
Figure 36. Aunt Dora Green, traditional midwife, Eufaula, Alabama, late 1930s. WPA Writers’ Project. Courtesy of Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery.
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 161–182.
Published: 01 April 2019
... in A New Day in Old Sana’a to tease out the peculiarities of love and marriage against a backdrop of intersecting socioeconomic factors such as tradition, gender, race, and national class. The essay, affirmed by Hirsi himself, also makes use of interdisciplinarity to evaluate how Hirsi’s film embodies...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 31–60.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Yu Shi Abstract Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the San Francisco Bay area, this study traces the emergence of a Chinese immigrant working-class patriarchy that is enabled by the articulation of “traditional” Chinesefemininity with new or reinvented gendered expectations in immigrant settings. I...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 439–462.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Jennifer C. Nash Abstract This article studies love as a distinct, transformative, and radical Black feminist politic. By closely sitting with the work of Alice Walker, June Jordan, and Audre Lorde, this article treats love-politics as another political tradition that has emerged from within...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 137–163.
Published: 01 September 2010
... to traditional notions of national representation, it also redefines what it means to bring grievance against the nation-state. Post-independence Trinidad was defined politically and culturally as an African-identified state, and as such, calypso and steelband performance-traditionally black male and working...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 71–87.
Published: 01 September 2016
... should be considered a key figure in the radical Black tradition in the Americas. Not only did her ground-breaking theorizations of the Black Atlantic re-imagine this important concept from a radical, Black, female, Latin American perspective, but the general lack of knowledge of her theoretical...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 186–203.
Published: 01 September 2015
... today, is influenced by African matriarchal traditions, although it is surrounded by the realities of a patriarchal world, and these traditions come into play in its organization and mission. Liking is not only the mother of ideas at the Village, but also of the poor, marginalized, and sometimes...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 137–165.
Published: 01 December 2016
... within and refuses to collapse the radical and revolutionary political traditions and approaches of Indigenous movements for sovereignty and Black race-radical liberatory traditions. This transnational, comparative focus helps us to not only identify and understand but to create multiple strategies...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 163–183.
Published: 01 September 2018
..., and citizenship. Further, while the traditional concept of the middleman minority subsumes the female identity under that of the male head of the family, the global black hair industry—largely established, fueled, and energized by black and African women—centralizes the female. Like many industries...
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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 (2007) 7 (2): 43–60.
Published: 01 March 2007
... calls a “rebel consciousness” through representations of female rebels who refuse to “know duh place.” Cliff's rebel women combat and resist traditional representations of womanhood, patriarchy, colonial culture, and homophobia. The genealogy of the “fighting spirit” of Caribbean women is registered...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 93–129.
Published: 01 September 2008
... and its dance forms to empower women cross-culturally. She subverts traditional representations of womanhood in her songs and performances, thereby expanding existing definitions of womanhood. Hinds addresses women's ambivalent relationships with the performance and celebration of Caribbean culture...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 445–456.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Rosamond S. King Abstract This essay delineates the concept of radical interdisciplinarity, the use of methodologies that combine traditional scholarship with that which is not traditionally considered either scholarship or even part of an academic discipline—specifically poetry and other creative...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 65–84.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Laura Briggs Abstract Debt and imperialism have long been crucial questions for transnational feminism. This article attends particularly to recent and historical traditions of resistance in Puerto Rico and the wider Caribbean. It argues that part of the intellectual and political struggle has been...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 149–201.
Published: 01 April 2020
... national campaign to end prostitution as a case study to investigate how gender and patriarchy affect the ways social change is operationalized. Interested in the relationship between social and cultural change, following the tradition of feminist historians, this article utilizes the oral histories of two...
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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 (2020) 19 (S1): 463–483.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., concepts, methods, or curricula. However, Tubman’s contributions should be understood as pertinent to women’s studies, particularly from within women of color theoretical traditions. Copyright © 2014 Smith College 2014 black feminism distortion radicalism representation multiple oppressions...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 522–547.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and Black race-radical feminists and how this has placed these activists at the forefront of anti-violence movement-building. Such an intervention specifically upholds the tensions within and refuses to collapse political approaches of Indigenous movements for sovereignty and Black race-radical traditions...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 401–426.
Published: 01 October 2020
... in speculative texts. The author posits a lineage of negative aesthetics in the Dominican literary tradition, which we can trace back to the work of the Dominican pessimist writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While the writers articulating this outlook were invested in colonial...
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