[NIFL-POVRACELIT:339] Cross-Posted from the Women and Literacy List

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The following is cross-posted from the Women and Literacy list.

Mary Ann Corley
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Smith College and Wesleyan University have jointly created a new journal,
published by the Wesleyan University Press, that editors say is the first,
peer-reviewed scholarly journal focused exclusively on women of color. The
debut issue features articles about globalization and women; teaching about
minority women; the film "Mississippi Masala"; Dominican ideas about beauty;
and other topics. Poetry is also included. The editorial board, in an
introduction to the debut issue, notes that "feminist scholarship by and
about women of color has a relatively brief history in the academy." But the
board adds, "No area of study has so profoundly changed the scope and
content of feminist scholarship in the past decade as the exploration of
race and ethnicity in women's scholarship." The creation of the new journal,
the editors write, "marks the recognition that no matter what theoretical or
disciplinary paradigms bring feminist scholars to this historical moment of
knowledge production and political action, and whether our work is in the
U.S. or elsewhere, the post-colonial and the neocolonial collide and
intersect in complex ways." Exploration of these issues, the editors hope,
"will redefine not only the field of women's studies, but also the future
directions of the humanities and social sciences." The articles are not
online, but information about the journal may be found at
http://www.smith.edu/meridians/
__________________________
Louisa A. Nielsen , Executive Director
Broadcast Education Association
1771 N Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036-2891



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