Meridians 16:2

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Ginetta Candelario, Smith CollegeFollow

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v–viii

Creation Date

3-1-2018

Publisher

Duke University Press

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Editor's Introduction to the issue archived as published by Ginetta E. B. Candelario.

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

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Journal

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It is a bittersweet pleasure to publish this special issue on Black women's health, guest edited by Jameta Nicole Barlow and LeConte J. Dill. The serendipitous timing of a special issue focused on Black women's health is particularly significant at this historical moment when Black women have launched and are leading movements such as #BlackLivesMatter, #SayHerName, and #MeToo because Black men, women, and children continue to be disproportionately subjected to life-threatening, state-based, structural and interpersonal violence in the United States....