| Contents |
Artwork -- Enough is enough : preface to the fortieth anniversary edition / Cherr̕e Moraga -- Acts of healing / Gloria Anzald︢a︣ and The Gloria E. Anzald︢a︣ Literary Trust -- Catching fire : introduction, 2015 / Cherr̕e Moraga -- Foreword to the first edition, 1981 / Toni Cade Bambara -- The bridge poem / Kate Rushin -- La jornada : preface, 1981 / Cherr̕e Moraga -- Introduction, 1981 / Cherr̕e Moraga and Gloria Anzald︢a︣ -- 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 / Cherr̕e 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 g ra / Cherr̕e 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 Carrillo ; Beyond the cliffs of Abiquiu / Jo Carrillo ; 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 Anzald︢a︣ ; 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 Alarc̤n ; Ceremony for completing a poetry reading / Chrystos -- VI. El Mundo Zurdo : the vision. Give me back / Chrystos ; La prieta / Gloria Anzald︢a︣ ; A Black feminist statement / Combahee River Collective ; The welder / Cherr̕e Moraga ; O.K. momma, who the hell am I? : an interview with Luisah Teish / Gloria Anzald︢a︣ ; 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 / Cherr̕e Moraga ; Foreword to the second edition, 1983 / Gloria Anzald︢a︣ ; Refugees of a world on fire : foreword to the second edition, 1983 / Cherr̕e Moraga ; Counsels from the firing...past, present, future : foreword to the third edition, 2001 / Gloria Anzald︢a︣. |
| Abstract |
"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."" --Page 4 of cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Source of description | online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost, viewed 08 April 2022) |
| Issued in other form | Print version: This bridge called my back. Fortieth anniversary edition. New York : SUNY Press, [2021] 1438488289 |
| Genre/form | essays. |
| Genre/form | poetry. |
| Genre/form | Literary collections. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| Genre/form | Literature. |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| Genre/form | Literature. |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| Genre/form | Essais. |
| Genre/form | Poésie. |
| ISBN | 9781438488295 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1438488297 (electronic bk.) |
