This bridge called my back : writings by radical women of color /
edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa.
- Fourth edition.
- Albany (NY) : SUNY Press, 2015.
- xlvii, 286 p. : ill. b&w ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Artwork -- Catching fire: preface to the Fourth Edition / Acts of healing / Foreword to the First Edition, 1981 / The bridge poem / La jornada: preface, 1981 / Introduction, 1981 / Children Passing in the Streets: The Roots of Our Radicalism -- When I was growing up / On not bein / For the color of my mother / I am what I am / Dreams of violence / He saw / Entering the Lives of Others: Theory in the Flesh -- Wonder woman / La güera / Invisibility is an unnatural disaster: reflections of an Asian American woman / It's in my blood, my face-my mother's voice, the way I sweat / "Gee you don't seem like an Indian from the reservation" / "...And even Fidel can't change that!" / I walk in the history of my people / And When You Leave, Take Your Pictures With You: Racism in the Women's Movement -- And when you leave, take your pictures with you / Beyond the cliffs of Abiquiu / I don't understand those who have turned away from me / Asian Pacific women and feminism / "But I know you, American woman" / The Black back-ups / The pathology of racism: a conversation with third world wimmin / We're all in the same boat / An open letter to Mary Daly / The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house / Between the Lines: On Culture, Class, and Homophobia -- The other heritage / The tired poem: last letter from a typical (unemployed) Black professional woman / To be continued ... / Across the kitchen table: a sister-to-sister dialogue / Lesbianism: an act of resistance / Lowriding through the women's movement / Letter to ma / I come with no illusions / I paid very hard for my immigrant ignorance / Earth-lover, survivor, musician / Speaking in Tongues: The Third World Woman Writer -- Speaking in tongues: a letter to third world women writers / Millicent Fredericks / In Search of the self as hero: confetti of voices on New Year's night, a letter to myself / Chicana's feminist literature: a re-vision through Malintzin/or Malintzin putting flesh back on the object / Ceremony for completing a poetry reading / El Mundo Zurdo: The Vision -- Give me back / La prieta / A Black feminist statement / The welder / O.K. momma, who the hell am I? an interview with Luisah Teish / Brownness / Revolution: it's not neat or pretty or quick / No rock scorns me as whore / Appendix. Afterword: On the Fourth Edition / Foreword to the Second Edition, 1983 / Refugees of a world on fire: Foreword to the Second Edition, 1983 / Counsels from the firing ... past, present, future: Foreword to the Third Edition, 2001 / Cherríe Moraga. Gloria Anzaldúa and The Gloria E. Anzaldúa Literary Trust. Toni Cade Bambara. Kate Rushin -- Cherríe Moraga. Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa -- Nellie Wong. Mary Hope Whitehead Lee -- Cherríe Moraga -- Rosario Morales -- Naomi Littlebear Morena -- Chrystos -- Genny Lim -- Cherríe Moraga. Mitsuye Yamada -- Anita Valerio -- Barbara Cameron -- Aurora Levins Morales -- Chrystos -- Jo Carillo -- Jo Carillo -- Chrystos -- Mitsuye Yamada -- Judit Moschkovich -- Kate Rushin -- Doris Davenport -- Rosario Morales -- Audre Lorde -- Audre Lorde -- Rosario Morales -- Kate Rushin -- Kate Rushin -- Barbara Smith and Beverly Smith -- Cheryl Clarke -- Barbara Noda -- Merle Woo -- Mirtha N. Quintanales. Mirtha N. Quintanales -- Naomi Littlebear Morena -- Gloria Anzaldúa. Gabrielle Daniels -- Nellie Wong -- Norma Alarcón -- Chrystos -- Chrystos -- Gloria Anzaldúa Combahee River Collective Cherríe Moraga Gloria Anzaldúa -- Andrea Canaan -- Pat Parker -- Chrystos -- Cherríe Moraga -- Gloria Anzaldúa -- Cherríe Moraga -- Gloria Anzaldúa. Pt. 1. Pt. 2. Pt. 3. Pt. 4. Pt. 5. Pt. 6.
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 twentieth century. 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."
Reissued here, nearly thirty-five years after its inception, the fourth edition contains an extensive new introduction by Moraga, along with a previously unpublished statement by Gloria Anzaldúa. The new edition also includes visual artists whose work was produced during the same period as Bridge, including Betye Saar, Ana Mendieta, and Yolanda López, as well as current contributor biographies. Bridge continues to reflect an evolving definition of feminism, one that can effectively adapt to, and help inform an understanding of the changing economic and social conditions of women of color in the United States and throughout the world.