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Meridians Twentieth Anniversary Reader, Ginetta Candelario
Meridians Twentieth Anniversary Reader, Ginetta Candelario
Sociology: Faculty Books
This critical anthology consists of thirty of Meridians's most frequently cited, downloaded, and anthologized scholarly essays, activists reports, memoirs, and poems since its first issue was published in fall 2000. The forty authors featured are a virtual who's who of internationally renowned feminist women-of-color scholar-activists (such as Sara Ahmed, Angela Davis, Sonia Alvarez, Paula Giddings, and Sunera Thobani) and award-winning poets (such as Nikky Finney, Laurie Ann Guerrero, and Suheir Hammad). Ranging broadly across geographies (North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East), diasporas (Black, Asian, Indigenous), and disciplines, the collection beautifully exemplifies the best practices of …
Meridians 19:2, Ginetta Candelario
Meridians 19:2, Ginetta Candelario
Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism
As I began writing this introduction, the Commonwealth of Virginia became the thirty-eighth state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), a milestone arriving thirty-eight years after the 1982 deadline for its ratification....
Meridians 19:1, Ginetta Candelario
Meridians 19:1, Ginetta Candelario
Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism
This volume’s publication coincides with the one hundredth anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which Meridians readers likely know was the culmination of nearly a century of women’s organizing for political and civil rights....
Gita And Betty: An Internationalist Love Story, Elisabeth Armstrong
Gita And Betty: An Internationalist Love Story, Elisabeth Armstrong
Study of Women and Gender: Faculty Books
"Gita and Betty: An Internationalist Love Story" is part of Faith in the Masses: a collection of 12 essays by historians and activist-scholars on various aspects of the 100-year history of the CPUSA. The essays in this book demonstrate the Communist Party, USA's century long commitment to equality, workers' rights, peace, and socialism. They highlight the struggle for African American equality, Black liberation, and women's rights, and place athletic, cultural, and literary activities well within the scope of CPUSA work. This book asserts that the CPUSA played a leading role in the social and economic justice struggles of the …