Meridians 11:2

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Paula J. Giddings

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v–viii

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3-1-2013

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Duke University Press

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Editor's Introduction to the issue "Nationalism and Its Discontents" by Paula J. Giddings archived as published.

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

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I remember the moment when feminist transnationalism made its first indelible impression on me. I was a participant on a panel during the United Nation's Women's Conference (1985) that took place in Nairobi, Kenya, with three other women who were activists in Algeria, Palestine and Israel, respectively. We had come together before the panel to talk informally about our presentations, when, during the conversation, I bemoaned the fact that black women in the U.S., who had been so instrumental to the early civil rights struggle, were now being criticized for their leadership roles by men....