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Editor’s Introduction

  1. Speaking Our Peace: Celebrating Twenty Years of Women of Color Feminist Transnational Knowledge Production in Meridians
  2. Ginetta E. B. Candelario
  3. pp. 1-12
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Interview

  1. Passion, Generosity, and the Academy: Meridians Interview with Ruth J. Simmons
  2. Ruth J. Simmons
  3. pp. 13-21
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Essay

  1. Hair Race-ing: Dominican Beauty Culture and Identity Production
  2. Ginetta E. B. Candelario
  3. pp. 22-50
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Media Matters

  1. Organic Hybridity or Commodification of Hybridity? Comments on Mississippi Masala
  2. Kum-Kum Bhavnani
  3. pp. 51-68
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Essay

  1. Missing in Action: Ida B.Wells, NAACP, and the Historical Record
  2. Paula J. Giddings
  3. pp. 69-86
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Essay

  1. Race, Gender, and the Prison Industrial Complex: California and Beyond
  2. Angela Y. Davis, Cassandra Shaylor
  3. pp. 87-111
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Memoir

  1. On Writing and Return: Palestinian-American Reflections
  2. Lisa Suhair Majaj
  3. pp. 112-126
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In the Archives

  1. September 11: A Feminist Archive
  2. Amrita Basu, Paula Giddings, Inderpal Grewal, Kamala Visweswaran
  3. pp. 127-130
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Reflection

  1. Transnational Feminist: Practices againstWar
  2. Paola Bacchetta, Tina Campt, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Minoo Moallem, Jennifer Terry
  3. pp. 131-138
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In the Trenches

  1. War Frenzy
  2. Sunera Thobani
  3. pp. 139-148
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Poetry

  1. First Writing Since
  2. Suheir Hammad
  3. pp. 149-154
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Memoir

  1. Dreaming in the Delta: A Memoir Essay
  2. Kristal Brent Zook
  3. pp. 155-165
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Poetry

  1. The Making of Paper
  2. Nikky Finney
  3. pp. 166-168
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Culturework

  1. Art Comes for the Archbishop: The Semiotics of Contemporary Chicana Feminism and the Work of Alma López
  2. Luz Calvo
  3. pp. 169-195
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Counterpoint

  1. The Nonperformativity of Antiracism
  2. Sara Ahmed
  3. pp. 196-218
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Essay

  1. Gender, Sovereignty, and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women's Activism
  2. Joanne Barker
  3. pp. 219-254
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Media Matters

  1. "All That You Can't Leave Behind": Surrogation and Black Female Soul Singing in the Age of Catastrophe
  2. Daphne A. Brooks
  3. pp. 255-278
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Essay

  1. Queering Puerto Rican Women's Narratives: Gaps and Silences in the Memoirs of Antonia Pantoja and Luisita López Torregrosa
  2. Lourdes Torres
  3. pp. 279-307
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Poetry

  1. How I Put Myself through School
  2. Laurie Ann Guerrero
  3. pp. 308-309
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Culturework

  1. "A Real Feminine Journey": Locating Indigenous Feminisms in the Arts
  2. Nancy Marie Mithlo
  3. pp. 310-339
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Counterpoint

  1. What Is Reproductive Justice? How Women of Color Activists Are Redefining the Pro-Choice Paradigm
  2. Kimala Price
  3. pp. 340-362
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Essay

  1. Cosmopolitan Whiteness: The Effects and Affects of Skin-Whitening Advertisements in a Transnational Women's Magazine in Indonesia
  2. L. Ayu Saraswati
  3. pp. 363-388
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Pedagogy

  1. "The Daughter of Fu Manchu": The Pedagogy of Deconstructing the Representation of Asian Women in Film and Fiction
  2. Shoba Sharad Rajgopal
  3. pp. 389-409
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Counterpoint

  1. Mel-han-cholia as Political Practice in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée
  2. Jennifer Cho
  3. pp. 410-434
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Poetry

  1. Under/Water: Memorial Day, May 31, 2010
  2. Myriam J. A. Chancy
  3. pp. 435-438
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Essay

  1. Practicing Love: Black Feminism, Love-Politics, and Post-Intersectionality
  2. Jennifer C. Nash
  3. pp. 439-462
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Pedagogy

  1. Under-Theorized and Under-Taught: Re-examining Harriet Tubman's Place in Women's Studies
  2. Vivian M. May
  3. pp. 463-483
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Media Matters

  1. Cutting across Imperial Feminisms toward Transnational Feminist Solidarities
  2. Basuli Deb
  3. pp. 484-507
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In the Trenches

  1. 'Vem Marchar com a Gente'/Come March with Us
  2. Sonia E. Álvarez
  3. pp. 508-512
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In the Trenches

  1. March against Racism and Violence and in Favor of Living Well (bem viver), Brasilia 2015: National BlackWomen's March November 18
  2. Claudia Ferreira, Adriana Medeiros
  3. pp. 513-521
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Pedagogy

  1. Challenging Convictions: Indigenous and Black Race-Radical Feminists Theorizing the Carceral State and Abolitionist Praxis in the United States and Canada
  2. Lena Palacios
  3. pp. 522-547
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Pedagogy

  1. Rethinking Meridians: As a Critical Knowledge Project, a Pedagogical Offering, and a Black Feminist Quilted Narrative
  2. Karsonya Wise Whitehead
  3. pp. 548-558
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About the Cover Artist

  1. Silenced Voices of Everyday Sheroes
  2. Samanta Tello
  3. p. 559
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