This bridge called my back: writings by radical women of color

Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa

Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1983 - Literary Collections - 261 pages

This groundbreaking collection reflects an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color. 65,000 copies in print.

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Review: This Bridge Called My Back

User Review  - Rowena - Goodreads

Without getting too personal, I have to admit I grew up with identity issues.I guess most women of colour living in the West do have such moments, especially seeing as how we are under-represented in ...

Review: This Bridge Called My Back

User Review  - Tombom P - Goodreads

For some reason I went into this thinking it was some sort of feminist manifesto, but it's an anthology of experiences of women of color, told through essays, poetry, biography and only sometimes ...

Contents

• Was Growing Up: 7
• IAmWhatlAm: 14
• Entering the Lives of Others: 21

About the author

Moraga is Artist-in-Residence at Stanford University.

A native of the Southwest, Anzaldua is a Chicana lesbian feminist theorist, creative writer, editor, and activist. She has taught Chicano studies, feminist studies, and writing at a number of universities. In addition, she has conducted writing workshops around the world and has been a contributing editor for the feminist literary journal Sinister Wisdom since 1984. She has also been active in the migrant farm workers movement. Anzaldua first came to critical attention with an anthology she coedited with Cherrie Moraga, another Chicana lesbian feminist theorist and writer. Titled This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981), the anthology includes poetry, fiction, autobiographical writing, criticism, and theory by Chicana, African American, Asian American, and Native American women who advocate change in academia and the culture at large. Anzaldua is well known for her second book, Borderlands/La Frontera (1987). It combines prose and poetry, history, autobiography, and criticism in Spanish, English, as well as Tex-Mex and Nahautl. Its purpose is to interrogate and deconstruct sexual, psychological, and spiritual borderlands as well as the United States-Mexican border. In 1990 Many Faces/Making Souls was published. Anzaldua currently resides in Santa Cruz, California.

Bibliographic information

• Title: This bridge called my back: writings by radical women of color; Rosa Parks collection
• Authors: Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa
• Editors: Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa
• Edition: 2, illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1983
• Length: 261 pages
• Subjects: American literature; Feminism; Literary Collections / American / African American; Literary Criticism / Women Authors; Minority women; Poetry / General; Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory; Social Science / Women's Studies