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 intersectionality as a theory, a method, and a politics.
Editor’s Introduction. Speaking Our Peace: Celebrating Twenty Years of Women of Color Feminist Transnational Knowledge Production in Meridians / Ginetta E. B. Candelario
Passion, Generosity, and the Academy: Meridians Interview with Ruth J.Simmons
Hair Race-ing: Dominican Beauty Culture and Identity Production / Ginetta E. B. Candelario
Missing in Action: Ida B. Wells, the NAACP, and the Historical Record / Paula J. Giddings
Race, Gender, and the Prison Industrial Complex: California and Beyond / Angela Y. Davis and Cassandra Shaylor
Gender, Sovereignty, and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women’s Activism / Joanne Barker
Queering Puerto Rican Women’s Narratives: Gaps and Silences in the Memoirs of Antonia Panoja and Luisita LÓpez Torregrosa / Lourdes Torres
Cosmopolitan Whiteness: The Effects and Affects of Skin-Whitening Advertisements in a Transnational Women's Magazine in Indonesia / L. Ayu Saraswati
Practicing Love: Black Feminism, Love-Politics, and Post-Intersectionality / Jennifer C. Nash
Organic Hybridity or Commodification of Hybridity? Comments on Mississippi Masala / Kum-Kum Bhavnani
“All That You Can’t Leave Behind”: Surrogation and Black Female Soul Singing in the Age of Catastrophe/ Daphne A. Brooks
Cutting across Imperial Feminisms toward Transnational Feminist Solidarities / Basuli Deb
On Writing and Return: Palestinian-American Reflections / Lisa Suhair Majaj
Dreaming in the Delta: A Memoir Essay / Kristal Brent Zook
September 11: A Feminist Archive / Amrita Basu, Paula Giddings, Inderpal Grewal, and Kamala Visweswaran
Transnational Feminist Practices against War / Paola Bacchetta, Tina Campt, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Minoo Moallem, and Jennifer Terry
Hilary Rodham Clinton’s Orient: Cosmopolitan Travel and Global Feminist Subjects / Caren Kaplan
