This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation
More than twenty years after the ground-breaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back called upon feminists to envision new forms of communities and practices, Gloria E. Anzaldúa and AnaLouise Keating have painstakingly assembled a new collection of over eighty original writings that offers a bold new vision of women-of-color consciousness for the twenty-first century. Written by women and men—both "of color" and "white"—this bridge we call home will challenge readers to rethink existing...
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More than twenty years after the ground-breaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back called upon feminists to envision new forms of communities and practices, Gloria E. Anzaldúa and AnaLouise Keating have painstakingly assembled a new collection of over eighty original writings that offers a bold new vision of women-of-color consciousness for the twenty-first century. Written by women and men—both "of color" and "white"—this bridge we call home will challenge readers to rethink existing categories and invent new individual and collective identities.
Giving ThanksPreface: (Un)natural bridges, (Un)safe spaces1Charting Pathways, Marking Thresholds ... A Warning, An Introduction6Foreword: AfterBridge: Technologies of Crossing21I"Looking for my own bridge to get over" ... exploring the impact1Open the Door272Chameleon283Del puente al arco iris: transformando de guerrera a mujer de la paz - From Bridge to Rainbow: Transforming from Warrior to Woman of Peace424Nacido en un Puente/Born on a Bridge505Engaging Contradictions, Creating Home ... Three Letters536Bridges/Backs/Books: A Love Letter to the Editors597Bridging Different Views: Australian and Asia-Pacific Engagements with This Bridge Called My Back628Thinking Again: This Bridge Called My Back and the Challenge to Whiteness699The Spirit of This Bridge7710Remembering This Bridge, Remembering Ourselves: Yearning, Memory, and Desire8111Seventh Fire104II"Still struggling with the boxes people try to put me in" ... resisting the labels12Interracial10513Los Intersticios: Recasting Moving Selves10614Gallina Ciega: Turning the Game on Itself11015Que Onda Mother Goose: The Real Nursery Rhyme from El Barrio11616The Hipness of Mediation: A Hyphenated German Existence11717Living Fearlessly With and Within Differences: My Search for Identity Beyond Categories and Contradictions12618A Letter to a Mother, from Her Son13619Young Man Popkin: A Queer Dystopia13720Transchildren, Changelings, and Fairies: Living the Dream and Surviving the Nightmare in Contemporary America14521The Real Americana15522Shades of a Bridge's Breath15823Nomadic Existence: Exile, Gender, and Palestine (an E-mail Conversation between Sisters)16524(Re)Writing Home: A Daughter's Letter to Her Mother17625In the End (Al Fin) We are all Chicanas (Somos Todos Chicanas): pivotal positions for change181III"Locking arms in the master's house" ... omissions, revisions, new issues26Burning House19127"What's Wrong with a Little Fantasy?" Storytelling from the (Still) Ivory Tower19228Footnoting Heresy: E-mail Dialogues20229Memory and the New-Born: The Maternal Imagination in Diaspora20830The "White" Sheep of the Family: But Bleaching is like Starvation22331Lesbianism, 200023232"Now That You're White Man": Changing Sex in a Postmodern World - Being, Becoming, and Borders23933Poets, Lovers, and the Master's Tools: A Conversation with Audre Lorde25434"All I Can Cook is Crack on a Spoon": A Sign for a New Generation of Feminists25835Don't Touch: Recuerdos (Self-Destruction)26736Premature26737The Reckoning277IV"A place at the table" ... surviving the battles, shaping our worlds38Puente del Fuego28539Vanish is a Toilet Bowl Cleaner28640Yo'Done Bridge is Fallin' Down28741Council Meeting29342For My Sister: Smashing the Walls of Pretense and Shame29543Resisting the Shore30144Standing on This Bridge30445Stolen Beauty31346Looking for Warrior Woman (Beyond Pocahontas)31447So Far from the Bridge32548The Ricky Ricardo Syndrome: Looking for Leaders, Finding Celebrities33049Survival33950Imagining Differently: The Politics of Listening in a Feminist Classroom341V"Shouldering more identity than we can bear" ... seeking allies in academe51Nurturance35752Aliens and Others in Search of the Tribe in Academe35853The Fire in My Heart36954Notes from a Welfare Queen in the Ivory Tower37255Being the Bridge: A Solitary Black Woman's Position in the Women's Studies Classroom as a Feminist Student and Professor38156This World is My Place39057Missing Ellen and Finding the Inner Life: Reflections of a Latina Lesbian Feminist on the Politics of the Academic Closet39158The Cry-Smile Mask: A Korean-American Woman's System of Resistance39759Andrea's Third Shift: The Invisible Work of African-American Women in Higher Education40360Recollecting This Bridge in an Anti-Affirmative Action Era: Literary Anthologies, Academic Memoir, and Institutional Autobiography41561Healing Suenos for Academia433VI"Yo soy to otro yo - I am your other I" ... forging common ground62My tears are wings43963The Colors Beneath Our Skin44064Connection: The Bridge Finds its Voice44965The Body Politic - Meditations on Identity45066Speaking of Privilege45867The Latin American and Caribbean Feminist/Lesbian Encuentros: Crossing the Bridge of Our Diverse Identities46368Sitting in the Waiting Room of Adult and Family Services at SE 122nd in Portland, Oregon, with My Sister and My Mother Two Hours Before I Return to School (April 1995)47069Tenuous Alliance47370Chamizal48371Linkages: A Personal-Political Journey with Feminist-of-Color Politics486VII"I am the pivot for transformation" ... enacting the vision72Girl and Snake49573Thawing Hearts, Opening a Path in the Woods, Founding a New Lineage49674Still Crazy After All These Tears50675"And Revolution is Possible": Re-Membering the Vision of This Bridge51076Witch Museum51777Forging El Mundo Zurdo: Changing Ourselves, Changing the World51978In the Presence of Spirit(s): A Meditation on the Politics of Solidarity and Transformation53079Continents53980Now let us shift ... the path of conocimiento ... inner work, public acts540Works Cited579Contributors' Biographies593Editors' Biographies602Index603
