Meridians 18:2 Radical Transnationalism: Reimagining Solidarities, Violence, Empires

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Ginetta Candelario, Smith CollegeFollow

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249–252

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10-1-2019

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Duke University Press

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Editor's Introduction to the issue "Radical Transnationalism: Reimagining Solidarities, Violence, Empires" archived as published by Ginetta E. B. Candelario.

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In the mid-1990s a small group of feminist faculty from women’s studies, Latin American studies, and Afro-American studies at Smith College came together to discuss the troubling lacunae in each of their respective fields.¹ Because each interdisciplinary field had a foundational mission to address the biases and assumptions of traditional disciplines that had overlooked—or worse, distorted—the experiences of its particular oppressed and/or exploited community, the fields prioritized one locus of discrimination and generally glossed over others. This paradigmatic weakness extended to each field’s otherwise innovative curricula, scholarship, and pedagogy...