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Summary:

"Originally released in 1981, This Bridge Called My Back, is a testimony to women of color feminism as it emerged in the last quarter of the 20th century. Through personal essays, criticism, interviews, testimonials, poetry, and visual art, the collection explores the complex confluence of identities--race, class, gender, and sexuality--systemic to women of color oppression and liberation."--Page 4 of cover.

Table of 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
• Section 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
• Section 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
• Section 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
• Section 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
• Section 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
• Section 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 ; Biographies of the contributors ; Biographies of the original contributors ; Credits.

Contributors:

Moraga, Cherríe , editor

Anzaldúa, Gloria , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Feminism — Literary collections

Women — United States — Literary collections

American literature — Minority authors

Minority women — Literary collections

American literature — Women authors

Radicalism — Literary collections

Feminism

Women

American literature

Minority women

Radicalism

United States

Genres:

Literature

Literary collections

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Physical Description:

xlvii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

PS509.F44 T5 2015

ISBNs:

9781438454399 (hardcover)
1438454392 (hardcover)
9781438454382 (pbk.)
1438454384 (pbk.)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2014039109

OCLC Numbers:

894128432