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

Writings by radical women of color

Catching fire : preface to the fourth edition / Acts of healing / The bridge poem / La jornada : preface, 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 / Afterword: On the fourth edition / 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

Infinite divisions : an anthology of Chicana literature