{"id":1067,"date":"2025-01-15T18:44:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T23:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians25thanniversary\/?page_id=1067"},"modified":"2025-02-17T13:07:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T18:07:04","slug":"americas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/issues\/articles-by-region\/americas\/","title":{"rendered":"Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Latin America<\/strong> \u2013<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

23.1: \u201cMes del viento \/ Month of wind\u201d by Cece Roth-Eagle (p. 14<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIndigenous Women on the Frontlines of Climate Activism: The Battle for Environmental Justice in the Amazon\u201d by S\u00f4nia Bone Guajajara and C\u00e9lia Xakriab\u00e1 with an introductory note by Malcolm McNee and translation by Elena Langdon (p. 82<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Latin America<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Caribbean<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

US American South<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

US and Canada<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

US\/Mexico Borderlands<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

19.2: \u201cPrecursor to Women of Color Feminism: The International Council of Women of the Darker Races of the World and Their Internationalist Orientation\u201d by Sheilena M. Downey (p. 271<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPetition for a Comprehensive Law Against Gender-Based Violence in Cuba\u201d by Luc\u00eda M. Su\u00e1rez (p. 383<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

19.1: \u201cFederada Testimonios on the Ground: Revealing the Gendered Limits in Operationalizing the Cuban Revolution\u2019s Campaign against Prostitution\u201d by Alyssa Garcia (p. 149<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

18.2: \u201cGenealogies of Transnational Activism: The Somos Hermanas Project in
Central America\u201d by Denisse D. Vel\u00e1zquez (p. 394<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPetition for a Comprehensive Law against Gender-Based Violence in Cuba\u201d by Deema Kaedbey, Nadine Naber (p. 457<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14.2: SPECIAL ISSUE<\/a> \u201cAfrican Descendant Feminisms in Latin America Part II: South and Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14.1: SPECIAL ISSUE<\/a> \u201cAfrican Descendant Feminisms in Latin America Part I: Brazil\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13.2: \u201cIndo-Caribbean Women from Trinidad and Guyana: Hardships, Conflict, and Resiliency\u201d by Odessa D. Despot (p. 1<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13.1: \u201cThe Dirty Body that Cleans: Representations of Domestic Workers in Brazilian Common Sense\u201d by Patricia de Santana Pinho (p. 103<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5.1: \u201cPlace, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature\u201d by Kwame Dixon (p. 264<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3.1: \u201cThe Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Struggle Against Impunity in Argentina\u201d by Rita Arditti (p. 19<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.1: \u201cTranslating the Global: Effects of Transnational Organizing on Local Feminist
Discourses and Practices in Latin America\u201d by Sonia E. Alvarez (p. 29<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The Caribbean<\/strong> \u2013 <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

19.2: \u201cDominican Futurism: The Speculative Use of Negative Aesthetics in the Work of Rita Indiana\u201d by Kristie Soares (p. 401<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

17.1: \u201cWitchcrafts of Color: Suzanne C\u00e9saire, Mayotte Cap\u00e9cia, and the Shapeshifting Doudou in Vichy Martinique\u201d by Marina Magloire (p. 97<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16.2: \u201cThe Dance Chose Me: Womanist Reflections on B\u00e8l\u00e8 Performance in Contemporary Martinique\u201d by Camee Maddox-Wingfield (p. 295<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15.2: \u201cThe International Engagements of Working-Class Jamaican Women: Listening to Louise Bennett and Her Routes Women\u201d by Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo (p. 412<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTriangular Voyages: Locating the Transnational Caribbean Woman in Paule Marshall\u2019s \u2018To Da-duh, in Memoriam\u2019\u201d by Sam V\u00e1squez (p. 464<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14.2: SPECIAL ISSUE<\/a> \u201cAfrican Descendant Feminisms in Latin America Part II: South and Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13.2: \u201cIndo-Caribbean Women from Trinidad and Guyana: Hardships, Conflict, and Resiliency\u201d by Odessa D. Despot (p. 1<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11.1: SPECIAL ISSUE<\/a> \u201cMemory\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10.1: \u201c\u2018Why Must All Girls Want to be Flag Women?\u2019: Postcolonial Sexualities, National Reception, and Caribbean Soca Performance\u201d by Samantha Pinto (p. 137<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9.1: \u201cQueering Puerto Rican Women\u2019s Narratives: Gaps and Silences in the Memoirs of Antonia Pantoja and Luisita L\u00f3pez Torregrosa\u201d by Lourdes Torres (p. 83<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7.2: \u201cReconfigurations of Caribbean History: Michelle Cliff\u2019s \u2018Rebel Women\u2019\u201d by Jennifer Thorington Springer (p. 43<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7.1: \u201cSize Matters: Figuring Gender in the (Black) Jamaican Nation\u201d by Winnifred Brown-Glaude (p. 38<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrom Trigue\u00f1ita to Afro\u2013Puerto Rican: Intersections of the Racialized, Gendered, and Sexualized Body in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Mainland\u201d by Maritza Qui\u00f1ones Rivera (p. 162<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5.1: SPECIAL SECTION<\/a> \u201cVoices from Hispaniola\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3.2: \u201cConfronting Power and Politics: A Feminist Theorizing of Gender in Commonwealth Caribbean Societies\u201d by Violet Eudine Barriteau (p. 57<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.1: \u201cHair Race-ing: Dominican Beauty Culture and Identity Production\u201d by Ginetta Candelario (p. 128<\/a>)
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US American South<\/strong> \u2013 <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

19.2: \u201cPlaying the \u2018Lady Sambo\u2019: Poor Black Women\u2019s Legal Strategies in the Post\u2013Civil War South\u2019s Civil Courts\u201d by Leigh-Anne Francis (p. 250<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16.2: \u201cThe 1938 Mississippi Health Project\u201d by Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (p. 393<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3.2: \u201cDreaming in the Delta: A Memoir Essay\u201d by Kristal Brent Zook (p. 278<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n


US and Canada<\/strong> \u2013 <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

23.1: \u201cThe Contemporary Origins of Smum\u2019iem Matriarchy in Sinixt T\u0259mxw\u00fala\u0294xw\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transcribed from recordings with Marilyn James, Sinixt Smum\u2019iem Matriarch
Marilyn James with an introductory note by Lori Barkley and transcription by Sarah Beauchamp (p. 259<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

21.1: \u201cAn Intersectional Approach to Interrogating Rights: How the United States Does Not Comply with the Racial Equality Treaty\u201d by Malia Lee Womack (p. 236<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

20.2: \u201cBetween Orientalism and Anti-Muslim Racism: Pakistan, the United States, and Women\u2019s Transnational Activism in the Early Cold War Interlude\u201d by Elora Shehabuddin (p. 340<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cQueering Islam and Muslim Americanness: Perversity, Recognition, and Failure in Usama Alshaibi\u2019s \u2018Profane\u2019\u201d by Taneem Husain (p. 466<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

17.1: \u201cSassy Mouths, Unfettered Spirits, and the Neo-Lynching of Korryn Gaines and Sandra Bland: Conceptualizing Post Traumatic Slave Master Syndrome and the Familiar \u2018Policing\u2019 of Black Women\u2019s Resistance in Twenty-First-Century America\u201d by Zoe Spencer and Olivia N. Perlow (p. 163<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16.1: \u201cHow to Write about Hawai\u2019i: A Guide to the Handling of Indigenous Characters, Inspired by Binyavanga Wainaina\u2019s \u2018How to Write About Africa\u2019\u201d by Leilani Rania Ganser (p. 157<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15.1: \u201cMourning in America: A Black Mother\u2019s Blues Song for the Mothers of Tamir Rice & Tyre King\u201d by Karsonya Wise Whitehead (p. 1<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cChallenging Convictions: Indigenous and Black Race-Radical Feminists Theorizing the Carceral State and Abolitionist Praxis in the United States and Canada\u201d by Lena Palacios (p. 137<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10.1: \u201cRevisiting Blu\u2019s Hanging: A Critique of Queer Transgression in the Lois-Ann Yamanaka Controversy\u201d by Cynthia Wu (p. 32<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9.1: \u201cMaroon Abolitionists: Black Gender-oppressed Activists in the Anti-Prison Movement in the U.S. and Canada\u201d by Julia Sudbury (p. 1<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Formation of a Chinese Immigrant Working-class Patriarchy: Reinventing Gendered Expectations within the Structural Confines of U.S. Society\u201d by Yu Shi (p. 31<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SPECIAL SECTION<\/a>: \u201cFrom the Archives: 2008 U.S. Election\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7.2: \u201c\u2018Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States,\u2019 A Traveling Public Art Exhibition\u201d by Rickie Solinger (p. 63<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7.1: \u201c\u2018Cruel Enough to Stop the Blood\u2019: Global Feminisms and the U.S. Body Politic, Or: \u2018They Done Taken My Blues and Gone\u2019\u201d by Karla F. C. Holloway (p. 1<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrom Trigue\u00f1ita to Afro\u2013Puerto Rican: Intersections of the Racialized, Gendered, and Sexualized Body in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Mainland\u201d by Maritza Qui\u00f1ones Rivera (p. 162<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6.2: \u201cGuantanamo: A Feminist Perspective on U.S. Human Rights Violations\u201d by Victoria Brittain (p. 209<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4.2: \u201cLegislative Tactics in a Movement Strategy: The Economic Human Rights \u2013 Pennsylvania Campaign\u201d by Mary Bricker-Jenkins (p. 108<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrom the Center to the Margins: The Radicalization of Human Rights in the United States\u201d by Laura Roskos (p. 129<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2.1: \u201cRace, Gender, and the Prison Industrial Complex California and Beyond\u201d by Angela Y. Davis and Cassandra Shaylor (p. 1<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHistories and Heresies: Engendering the Harlem Renaissance\u201d by Cheryl A. Wall (p. 59<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.1: Poems by Miyoko Sugano, Cathy Kanoelani Ikeda, Muriel M. Ah Sing Hughes, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tamara Wong-Morrison, Juliet S. Kono, and Cathy Song with a note on Hawai\u2019i\u2019s local literature by Miyoko Sugano (p. 110<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n


US-Mexican Borderlands<\/strong> \u2013 <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

13.1: \u201cGlorientalization: Specters of Asia and Feminized Cyborg Workers in the
US\u2013Mexico Borderlands\u201d by Long Thanh Bui (p. 129<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11.2: \u201cSolidarity across Borders: An Interview with Artist Andrea Arroyo\u201d by Vanessa P\u00e9rez Rosario (p. 91<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5.2: \u201cCoyotes, Comadres, y Colegas: Theorizing the Personal in Ruth Behar\u2019s \u2018Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza\u2019s Story\u2019\u201d by Susana S. Martinez (p. 149<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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