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Indigo

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Gina Athena Ulysse
Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 518–519.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-10880014
Published: 01 October 2023
...Gina Athena Ulysse [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Smith College 2023 ............ Artist Statement For once they intuited that the human will was long intent on capture, they all conspired to rest their Truth everywhere. And in the simplest of things. Like a raindrop...
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Tools of the Trade; or, Women’s Works

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Gina Athena Ulysse
Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 175–181.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-10926976
Published: 01 April 2024
...Gina Athena Ulysse [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Smith College 2024 But long ago when the people were given these ceremonies, the changing began, if only in the aging of the yellow gourd rattle or the shrinking of the skin around the eagle’s claw, if only in the different voices...
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She Ain't Oprah, Angela, or Your Baby Mama: The Michelle O Enigma

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Gina Athena Ulysse
Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 174–176.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2008.9.1.174
Published: 01 September 2009
...Gina Athena Ulysse Copyright © 2009 by Smith College 2009 GINA ATHENA ULYSSE SheAin'tOprah,Angela, or Your BabyMama: TheMichellOe EniBma* Recently, interviewer Larry King tried his best to get a rise out of Michelle Obama. Her responses remained cool, collected, and focused. She defied...
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Kado

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Katia D. Ulysse
Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 124–131.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.11.1.124
Published: 01 September 2011
...Katia D. Ulysse Copyright © 2011 by Smith College 2011 KATIA D. ULYSSE Kado They were a striking pair. Curious looks fell like arctic air on the back of Kate's neck. Passengers who could not wait to disembark stopped what they were doing to stare. Strapped to Kate's chest was the tattered...
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Haiti's Earthquake's Nickname and Some Women's Trauma

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Gina Athena Ulysse
Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 141–143.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.11.1.141
Published: 01 September 2011
...Gina Athena Ulysse Copyright © 2011 by Smith College 2011 GINA ATHENA ULYSSE Haiti'sEarthquake'sNicknameand SomeWomen'sTrauma The earthquake that decimated various parts of Haiti on January 12, 2010 has a name-Goudougoudou. That's the affectionate moniker that Haitians have given the disaster...
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Introduction

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Gina Athena Ulysse
Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 91–97.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.11.1.91
Published: 01 September 2011
...Gina Athena Ulysse Abstract This small collection of Haitian women's reflections on the earthquake offers readers a kaleidoscopic view of how several women at home and in the diaspora lived through this moment, their responses and the continuous impact on our lives. The works are composed...
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Homage To Those Who Hollered Before Me

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Gina Ulysse
Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 20–24.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-3.2.20
Published: 01 March 2003
...Gina Ulysse Copyright © 2003 by Wesleyan University Press 2003 GINA ULYSSE HomagTe oThoseWhoHollereBdeforMe e Silence chose me I didn't choose silence silence immobilized me I could not breathe in my own skin without breaking the silence I could not live in the castle of my skin as I came...
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Editor's Introduction

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Paula J. Giddings
Meridians (2011) 11 (1): v–vii.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.11.1.v
Published: 01 September 2011
... section of Meridians,Gina Athena Ulysse provides her own and those of others affected by the earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010 when at least 300,000 people lost their lives, thousands more lost limbs, and unknown numbers are now forced to cope with trauma of unfathomable magnitude...
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“Roll It Gal”: Alison Hinds, Female Empowerment, and Calypso

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Jennifer Thorington Springer
Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 93–129.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2008.8.1.93
Published: 01 September 2008
..., Gwendolyn Pough, Imani Perry, and Cheryl Keyes on hip-hop; Carolyn Cooper, Gina Ulysse, and Denise Noble on reggae/dancehall; and Maureen Warner-Lewis, Belinda Edmondson, Patricia Mohammed, and Carol BoyceDavies on calypso. This list is by no means exhaustive. What connects these scholars is a commitment...
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Editor’s Introduction

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Ginetta E. B. Candelario
Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 231–239.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-10640374
Published: 01 October 2023
..., and nationalisms. Serendipitously, in analyzing Comhaire-Sylvain’s photography, Sanders Jonson draws on the work of our cover artist, Haitian-American anthropologist Gina Athena-Ulysse, whose piece “Indigo” offers a “meditation on aesthetic identity” as part of the “Tools of the Trade or Women’s Work” Kwi series...
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Acknowledgments

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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 157.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2009.9.2.157
Published: 01 March 2009
... Romero Francesca Royster Ranu Samantrai Ella Shohat Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabard Elizabeth V. Spelman Jennifer Springer Nancy Saporta Sternbach Gina Ulysse Susan Van Dyne Charlene Villasenor-Black Jyotika Virdi Kamala Visweswaran Wendy Walters Ellen Watson Sharon Wesoky Judy Yung 157 ...
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Acknowledgments

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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 203.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.2010.10.2.203
Published: 01 March 2010
... Mary Romero Francesca Royster Ranu Samantrai Ella Shohat Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabard Elizabeth V.Spelman Jennifer Springer Nancy Saporta Sternbach Gina Ulysse Susan Van Dyne Charlene Villasenor-Black Jyotika Virdi Kamala Visweswaran Wendy Walters Ellen Watson Sharon Wesoky Judy Yung 203 ...
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Reflections on Being Machann ak Machandiz : August 27, 2010

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Carolle Charles
Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 118–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.11.1.118
Published: 01 September 2011
..., the daughter of a friend of mine, had a conversation with us [mothers] about a category of girls their age that they define as "dolls" always in search of "suitable partners." These dolls live through a script as young "uptown ladies" (see Ulysse 2008). That discussion took us back full circle to the December...
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Acknowledgments

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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 167–168.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-7.2.167
Published: 01 March 2007
... Robyn Rodriguez Mary Romero Noliwe Rooks Laura Roskos Andrea Rushing Maliha Safri Ranu Samantrai Alberto Sandoval Marilyn Schuster Falguni A. Sheth Andrea Smith Rickie Solinger Caridad Souza-Watkins Elizabeth V. Spelman Jane Stangl Michelle Stephens Meg Sweeney Becky Thompson Gina Ulysse Susan Van Dyne...
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About the Contributors

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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 289–292.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-3.2.289
Published: 01 March 2003
... of California, Davis and has recently published articles in CR:TheNewCentenniaRl eviewand in NarrativeS. he is currently finishing a manuscript entitled "Suspended Selves: Women Writers and Transamerican Narratives." GINA ULYSSE is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies at Wesleyan...
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The Dance Chose Me: Womanist Reflections on Bèlè Performance in Contemporary Martinique

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Camee Maddox-Wingfield
Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 295–307.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.16.2.10
Published: 01 March 2018
... purpose in order to protect my professional integrity as a researcher. Privileging the Black feminist analytical approach of reflexivity in anthropological research (Bolles 1995; Harrison 1997; Ulysse 2007) and following the legacy of African American dance anthropology pioneer Katherine Dunham...
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Indigenous Feminisms across the World, Part 1

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Basuli Deb, Ginetta E. B. Candelario
Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 1–13.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-10935407
Published: 01 April 2024
...?” (197). Our next piece, a stunning Visual Essay by Gina Athena Ulysse, offers a subtle but powerful example of artmaking as epistemology and ontology. “Tools of the Trade; or, Women’s Works” brings together kwi (gourds) made from the calabash tree—which is native to the Caribbean—and the ocher...
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What Our Grandmothers Knew: A Few Words of Greeting from the Editor

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Myriam J. A. Chancy
Meridians (2003) 3 (2): v–x.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-3.2.v
Published: 01 March 2003
... in the direction of poems to include in this tribute, and Angela Davis for allowing us to reprint a recent tribute VI to June Jorqan; we also give thanks to Nikky Finney, Gina Ulysse, and Ruth Forman for new work honoring literary forebears. In keeping with this tribute, Neluka Silva's essay, "Shameless Women...
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Picturing Herself in Africa: Haiti, Diaspora, and the Visual Folkloric

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Grace L. Sanders Johnson
Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 348–373.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-10637681
Published: 01 October 2023
... that the anthropologist Gina A. Ulysse ( 2007 : 6) argues “interrupt[s] the problem of ethnographic authority that arises when the focus is only on the subject” and “shift[s] or expand[s] the ethnographer as well as the subjects’ gaze on the researcher to cause a paradigm shift that has the potential to influence...
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Editor’s Introduction

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Ginetta E. B. Candelario
Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 239–249.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-8308352
Published: 01 October 2020
... tenant organizer in Harlem’s appropriately named Ulysses S. Grant Houses. As she details in her testimonio , “ Mi casa Is Not su casa : A Research Reflection,” the fraught relationship between light-skinned Calixta and her son Gilbert—“a dark-skinned Puerto Rican boy”—mapped onto the divides between...
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