![]() ![]() 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. The new edition also includes visual artists whose work was produced during the same period as Bridge, including Betye Saar, Ana Mendieta, and Yolanda L pez, as well as current contributor biographies. 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years after its inception, the fourth edition contains an extensive new introduction by Moraga, along with a previously unpublished statement by Gloria Anzald a. ![]() Through personal essays, criticism, interviews, testimonials, poetry, and visual art, the collection explores, as coeditor Cherr e Moraga writes, the complex confluence of identities-race, class, gender, and sexuality-systemic to women of color oppression and liberation. 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. ![]() 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. Cataloging-in-Publication Data This bridge called my back : writings by radical women of color / edited by Cherre L. The following, then, is the second edition of This Bridge Called My Back, conceived of and produced entirely by women of color. Finalist for the 2015 ForeWord INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award in the Anthologies Categoryīronze Medalist, 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Anthologies Category ![]()
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