This bridge called my back : writings by radical women of color / edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa.
"Through personal essays, criticism, interviews, testimonials, poetry, and visual art, this collection explores, as coeditor Cherrie Moraga writes, 'the complex confluence of identities--race, class, gender, sexuality--systemic to women of color oppression and liberation'"--Back cover.
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Language: | English |
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Albany, NY :
SUNY Press,
[2015]
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Edition: | Fourth edition. |
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Physical Description: | xlvii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Artwork
- Catching fire: preface to the Fourth Edition / Cherríe Moraga
- Acts of healing / Gloria Anzaldúa and The Gloria E. Anzaldúa Literary Trust
- Foreword to the First Edition, 1981 / Toni Cade Bambara
- The bridge poem / Kate Rushin
- La jornada: preface, 1981 / Cherríe Moraga
- Introduction, 1981 / Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa
- I. Children Passing in the Streets: The Roots of Our Radicalism. When I was growing up / Nellie Wong
- On not bein / Mary Hope Whitehead Lee
- For the color of my mother / Cherríe Moraga
- I am what I am / Rosario Morales
- Dreams of violence / Naomi Littlebear Morena
- He saw / Chrystos
- II. Entering the Lives of Others: Theory in the Flesh. Wonder woman / Genny Lim
- La güera / Cherríe Moraga
- Invisibility is an unnatural disaster: reflections of an Asian American woman / Mitsuye Yamada
- It's in my blood, my face--my mother's voice, the way I sweat / Anita Valerio
- "Gee you don't seem like an Indian from the reservation" / Barbara Cameron
- " ... and even Fidel can't change that!" / Aurora Levins Morales
- I walk in the history of my people / Chrystos
- III. And When You Leave, Take Your Pictures With You: Racism in the Women's Movement. And when you leave, take your pictures with you / Jo Carillo
- Beyond the cliffs of Abiquiu / Jo Carillo
- I don't understand those who have turned away from me / Chrystos
- Asian Pacific women and feminism / Mitsuye Yamada
- "--but I know you, American woman" / Judit Moschkovich
- The Black back-ups / Kate Rushin
- The pathology of racism: a conversation with third world wimmin / Doris Davenport
- We're all in the same boat / Rosario Morales
- An open letter to Mary Daly / Audre Lorde
- The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house / Audre Lorde
- IV. Between the Lines: On Culture, Class, and Homophobia. The other heritage / Rosario Morales
- The tired poem: last letter from a typical (unemployed) Black professional woman / Kate Rushin
- To be continued ... / Kate Rushin
- Across the kitchen table: a sister-to-sister dialogue / Barbara Smith and Beverly Smith
- Lesbianism: an act of resistance / Cheryl Clarke
- Lowriding through the women's movement / Barbara Noda
- Letter to ma / Merle Woo
- I come with no illusions / Mirtha N. Quintanales
- I paid very hard for my immigrant ignorance / Mirtha N. Quintanales
- Earth-lover, survivor, musician / Naomi Littlebear Morena
- V. Speaking in Tongues: The Third World Woman Writer. Speaking in tongues: a letter to third world women writers / Gloria Anzaldúa
- Millicent Fredericks / Gabrielle Daniels
- In Search of the self as hero: confetti of voices on New Year's night, a letter to myself / Nellie Wong
- Chicana's feminist literature: a re-vision through Malintzin/or Malintzin putting flesh back on the object / Norma Alarcón
- Ceremony for completing a poetry reading / Chrystos
- VI. El Mundo Zurdo: The Vision. Give me back / Chrystos
- La prieta / Gloria Anzaldúa
- A Black feminist statement / Combahee River Collective
- The welder / Cherríe Moraga
- O.K. momma, who the hell am I? an interview with Luisah Teish / Gloria Anzaldúa
- Brownness / Andrea Canaan
- Revolution: it's not neat or pretty or quick / Pat Parker
- No rock scorns me as whore / Chrystos
- Appendix. Afterword: On the Fourth Edition / Cherríe Moraga
- Foreword to the Second Edition, 1983 / Gloria Anzaldúa
- Refugees of a world on fire: Foreword to the Second Edition, 1983 / Cherríe Moraga
- Counsels from the firing ... past, present, future: Foreword to the Third Edition, 2001 / Gloria Anzaldúa.