| Description |
lv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Artwork -- Enough is enough : preface to the fortieth anniversary edition / Cherríe Moraga -- Acts of healing / Gloria Anzaldúa and The Gloria E. Anzaldúa Literary Trust -- Catching fire : introduction, 2015 / Cherríe Moraga -- 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 Carrillo ; Beyond the cliffs of Abiquiu / Jo Carrillo ; 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 |
| Summary |
"Through personal essays, criticism, interviews, testimonials, poetry, and visual art, the collection explores, as coeditor Cherríe Moraga writes, "the complex confluence of identities--race, class, gender, and sexuality--systemic to women of color oppression and liberation."" --Page 4 of cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
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Feminism -- Literary collections
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Women -- United States -- Literary collections
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American literature -- Minority authors
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Minority women -- Literary collections
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American literature -- Women authors
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Radicalism -- Literary collections
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American literature -- Minority authors.
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American literature -- Women authors.
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Feminism.
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Minority women.
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Radicalism.
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Women.
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United States.
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Poetry.
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Literature.
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Essays.
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Literary collections.
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Literature.
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Essays.
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Poetry.
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| Author |
Moraga, Cherríe, editor
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Anzaldúa, Gloria, editor
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| ISBN |
9781438488271 |
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1438488270 |
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9781438488288 |
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1438488289 |
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