Cherrie Moraga

This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition: Writings by Radical Women of Color Cherrie Moraga

Marc Notes: Originally published in 1981;new edition with additional material (introduction, art, and current biographies of contributors). Review Quotes: Immense is my admiration for the ongoing dialogue and discourse on feminism, Indigenous feminism, the defining discussions in women of color movements and the broader movement. I have loved this book for thirty years, and am so pleased we have returned with our stories, words, and attributes to the growing and resilient movement. Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe), Executive Director, Honor the Earth Praise for the Third Edition "This Bridge Called My Back" dispels all doubt about the power of a single text to radically transform the terrain of our theory and practice. Twenty years after its publication, we can now see how it helped to untether the production of knowledge from its disciplinary anchors and not only in the field of women s studies. "This Bridge" has allowed us to define the promise of research on race, gender, class and sexuality as profoundly linked to collaboration and coalition-building. And perhaps most important, it has offered us strategies for transformative political practice that are as valid today as they were two decades ago. Angela Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz "This Bridge Called My Back" has served as a significant rallying call for women of color for a generation, and this new edition keeps that call alive at a time when divisions prove ever more stubborn and dangerous. A much-cited text, its influence has been visible and broad both in academia and among activists. We owe much of the sound of our present voices to the brave scholars and feminists whose ideas and ideals crowd its pages. Shirley Geok-lin Lim, University of California, Santa Barbara This book is a manifesto the 1981 declaration of a new politics US Third World Feminism. No great de-colonial writer, from Fanon, Shaarawi, Blackhawk, or Sartre, to Mountain Wolf Woman, de Beauvoir, Saussure, or Newton could have alone proclaimed this politic born of necessity. This politic denies no truths: its luminosities drive into and through our bodies. Writers and readers alike become shape-shifters, are invited to enter the shaman/witness state, to invoke power differently. US Third World Feminism requires a re-peopling: the creation of planetary citizen-warriors. This book is a guide that directs citizenry shadowed in hate, terror, suffering, disconnection, and pain toward the light of social justice, gender and erotic liberation, peace, and revolutionary love. "This Bridge" transits our dreams, and brings them to the real. Chela Sandoval, University of California, Santa Barbara"Biographical Note: A poet, playwright, and cultural activist, Cherrie Moraga is Artist in Residence in the Department of Theater and Performance Studies and in the Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity Program at Stanford University. She is the author of many books, including "A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings, 2000 2010" and "Loving in the War Years: Lo que nunca paso por sus labios."Gloria Anzaldua (1942 2004) was a poet, metaphysical philosopher, and scholar of Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory, and queer theory. Her books include "Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza" and "The Gloria Anzaldua Reader," a posthumously published collection of her work."Table of Contents: Artwork Catching Fire: Preface to the Fourth Edition"CherrIe Moraga" Acts of Healing"Gloria AnzaldUa and The Gloria E. AnzaldUa Literary Trust" Foreword to the First Edition, 1981"Toni Cade Bambara" The Bridge Poem"Kate Rushin" La Jornada: Preface, 1981"CherrIe Moraga" Introduction, 1981"CherrIe Moraga and Gloria AnzaldUa" 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"CherrIe 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 GUera"CherrIe 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 AnzaldUa" 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 AlarcOn" Ceremony for Completing a Poetry Reading"Chrystos" VI. El Mundo Zurdo: The Vision Give Me Back"Chrystos" La Prieta"Gloria AnzaldUa" A Black Feminist Statement"Combahee River Collective" The Welder"CherrIe Moraga" O. K. Momma, Who the Hell Am I? An Interview with Luisah Teish"Gloria AnzaldUa" 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"CherrIe Moraga" Foreword to the Second Edition, 1983"Gloria AnzaldUa" Refugees of a World on Fire: Foreword to the Second Edition, 1983"CherrIe Moraga" Counsels from the Firing...past, present, future: Foreword to the Third Edition, 2001"Gloria AnzaldUa" Biographies of Contributors Biographies of the Original Contributors, 1981 CreditsReview Quotes: These essays and poems do more than just revisit the hopes, fears, frustrations, and accomplishments of women of color circa 1981; they also shed light on concerns women continue to face today There are lines of poetry here sure to stir the imagination and connect with all ages, races, and genders "This Bridge Called My Back" deserves to be picked up by a new generation of radical women. "ForeWord Reviews" Immense is my admiration for the ongoing dialogue and discourse on feminism, Indigenous feminism, the defining discussions in women of color movements and the broader movement. I have loved this book for thirty years, and am so pleased we have returned with our stories, words, and attributes to the growing and resilient movement. Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe), Executive Director, Honor the Earth Praise for the Third Edition "This Bridge Called My Back" dispels all doubt about the power of a single text to radically transform the terrain of our theory and practice. Twenty years after its publication, we can now see how it helped to untether the production of knowledge from its disciplinary anchors and not only in the field of women s studies. "This Bridge" has allowed us to define the promise of research on race, gender, class and sexuality as profoundly linked to collaboration and coalition-building. And perhaps most important, it has offered us strategies for transformative political practice that are as valid today as they were two decades ago. Angela Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz "This Bridge Called My Back" has served as a significant rallying call for women of color for a generation, and this new edition keeps that call alive at a time when divisions prove ever more stubborn and dangerous. A much-cited text, its influence has been visible and broad both in academia and among activists. We owe much of the sound of our present voices to the brave scholars and feminists whose ideas and ideals crowd its pages. Shirley Geok-lin Lim, University of California, Santa Barbara This book is a manifesto the 1981 declaration of a new politics US Third World Feminism. No great de-colonial writer, from Fanon, Shaarawi, Blackhawk, or Sartre, to Mountain Wolf Woman, de Beauvoir, Saussure, or Newton could have alone proclaimed this politic born of necessity. This politic denies no truths: its luminosities drive into and through our bodies. Writers and readers alike become shape-shifters, are invited to enter the shaman/witness state, to invoke power differently. US Third World Feminism requires a re-peopling: the creation of planetary citizen-warriors. This book is a guide that directs citizenry shadowed in hate, terror, suffering, disconnection, and pain toward the light of social justice, gender and erotic liberation, peace, and revolutionary love. "This Bridge" transits our dreams, and brings them to the real. Chela Sandoval, University of California, Santa Barbara" Review Citations: Foreword 02/26/2015 (EAN 9781438454382, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Moraga, Cherrie Nationally recognized as a poet, essayist, and cultural organizer, Cherrie Moraga is coeditor of the feminist multicultural anthology "This Bridge Called My Back". American Theatre has described her as a playwright "on the cutting edge . . . carv[ing] out the future of Chicano Theatre."