Meridians 7:1

Creator

Paula J. Giddings

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v–viii

Creation Date

9-1-2006

Publisher

Duke University Press

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Editor's Introduction to the issue archived as published.

The Smith College community has full-text access to the journal Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism.

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Journal

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One theme that threads through this volume of Merjdjans is how globalization, made possible by advances in science and technology, can also affirm antimodern practices which have particularly affected women of color. Dispersals, disturbances, and porous borders have reified nationalisms that, in liberatory moments, raise political consciousness, but then too often settle with the thud of circumscribing tradition upon the bodies of women. A number of essays reflect the effort to counter the trend through activism and reconceptualize the role of women through the arts, memory, and the questioning of alleged remedial institutional practices and scholarship....