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This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition
This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition: Writings by Radical Women of Color | Cherríe Moraga , Gloria Anzaldúa
Updated and expanded edition of the foundational text of women of color feminism.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years after its inception, the fourth edition contains an extensive new introduction by Moraga, along with a previously unpublished statement by Gloria Anzaldúa.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.“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 EarthPraise 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
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Brooklyn.anne
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thestarlesscasea
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What a remarkable collection! I find it inspiring how much grassroots passion, vulnerable sharing of lived experience, expertise of various kinds, and powerful calling for a better world went into this book. At the same time, I find it devastating to consider how relatively little progress has been made in almost thirty years and how much backsliding has happened in that same time. Definitely worth a read in my opinion.

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"I'm not willing at the moment to give up the electric blanket I am under & I do not notice too many radicals giving up their stereos, hot showers, cars & blenders Energy to run those machines must come from somewhere No protest march will alter the head-on collision Nothing short of completely altering the culture will stop it... Another case of lecturing vegetarians in leather shoes"
--Chrystos, "No Rock Scorns Me as Whore"

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thestarlesscasea
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--Cherríe Moraga

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thestarlesscasea
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No one smiles
at the beginning of a day spent
digging for souvenir chunks of uranium
of cleaning up after
our white sisters
radical friends

And when our white sisters
radical friends see us
in the flesh
not as a picture they own,
they are not quite as sure
if
they like us as much.
We're not as happy as we look
on
their
wall.

--from And When You Leave, Take Your Pictures With You by Jo Carrillo

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This one took me quite a while to finish, because I wanted to really sit with the essays and poems. A few of the essays, especially toward the end, didn‘t really speak to me but most of them were incredibly powerful and resonant. An important read for anyone trying to get a handle on intersectionality and the need for it in feminism.

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kgriffith
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Bookstore find on an impromptu live music date 😠#QuillBooksandBeverage

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SuperPunkNinja
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I'm loving this book!

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prowlix
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The top two lines are a quote from Simone DeBeauvoir and the paragraph is the conclusion of Audre Lorde‘s essay The Master‘s Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master‘s House.

#feminism

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prowlix
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“I believe that lack confidence of knowledge about other cultures is one of the basis of cultural oppression.â€

(I really shouldn‘t be sharing more quotes from this)
#feminism

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prowlix
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Large amounts of coffee ✅
Ugly but very warm sweater ✅
Old and soft comforter✅
Feminist classic for #Booked2018 ✅

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SuperPunkNinja
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Sometimes I have the perfect book for a prompt. #thebacksofwomen #marchintoreading

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This Bridge Called My Back is a collection of intersectional #feminist authors that challenges white, mainstream feminism. A must-read, imo.

We want to create a definition that expands what "feminist" means to us.

#diversebooks #diversebookbloggers #feminism

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SuperPunkNinja
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BOOK MAIL!!!!

BookishFeminist Been really wanting to read this!! 7y
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theshrinkette
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"The bridge I must be
Is the bridge to my own power
I must translate
My own fears
Mediate
My own weakness

I must be the bridge to nowhere
But my true self
And then
I will be useful"
- Kate Rushin

#ownvoices #weneediversebooks #feministquotes

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theshrinkette
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THIS ENTIRE SECTION OF THIE BOOK IS 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Bibliogeekery That book is SO great!! 7y
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theshrinkette
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Bibliogeekery Hell yeah!! 7y
GlitteryOtters If this book wasn't already in my TBR list, this quote would put it there. Absolutely true (and something I was trying--and failing--to properly express to my sweet, but clueless & very sheltered husband the other day). 7y
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theshrinkette
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I'm just going to leave this right here.

Bibliogeekery Great quote! 7y
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theshrinkette
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WOCreads Yass you are awesome! ✊💜 I finally got my own copy of this for my bday after years of only having print outs. 7y
BookishFeminist YES more recs. I've had this on my TBR and mean to get to it soon. 7y
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theshrinkette
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My #NonfictionNovember TBR just took a turn. More recs for you @BookishFeminist . #overit

BookishFeminist THANK YOU. Adding them all. #overit 7y
WOCreads So much love for this one!😠7y
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Today's cafe read. "I think: what is my responsibility to my roots - both white and brown, Spanish-speaking and English? I am a woman with a foot in both worlds; and I refuse the split. I feel the necessity for dialogue. Sometimes I feel it urgently."