this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation

by Ana Louise Keating (Editor), Gloria Anzaldúa (Editor)

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2002
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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. Anzaldua 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.

Synopsis

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. Anzaldua 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.

$203.09

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 624
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 31 Oct 2002
ISBN 10: 0415936810
ISBN 13: 9780415936811

Media Reviews

Reading this bridge we call home, which has more than 80 contributors, is like attending a late-night party with every noteworthy activist, professor, and artist you've ever met. The lives out its subtitle; it's hard to walk away from reading it without feeling changed.
- Bitch, Winter 2003
Readers interested in feminism and multiculturalism will appreciate the variety of contributors and viewpoints.
- Booklist, September 15, 2002
this bridge we call home is a book that, like its predecessor, turns our ideas upside down, revisits the battlegrounds of identity politics, and pushes us to ask hard questions about ourselves and our communities....Anzaldua and Keating have created a daring collection.
-Daisy Hernandez, coeditor, Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism
From shouldering the traumas and dramas of life in the most powerful country in the world, the U.S., toward the creation of a different world--a sort of us/then and us/now-- this bridge we call home is a step in gathering up and documenting our best thoughts about collected, difficult experiences. Diversity, difference, underlying pain, and gain, are revealed, spoken, and still, as in an earlier bridge, with a hope about speaking with the mainstream, the malestream, as well as the many more outside of either. An accomplishment, a brave, collaborative model for understanding the importance of both collected and collective experience.
-Deena J. Gonzalez, Chair, Dept. of Chicana/o Studies, Loyola Marymount Univ., Los Angeles and author of Refusing the Favor: The Spanish-Mexican Women of Santa Fe, 1820-1880
If you're ready for some serious fare by some of the best women ofcolor writers working today, this is a collection for you.
- Curve, April 2003

Author Bio

Gloria E. Anzaldua is a self-described tejana patlache (queer) nepantlera spiritual activist and has played a pivotal role in defining U.S. feminisms, Chicano/a issues, ethnic studies, and queer theory. Her book Borderlands/La frontera: The New Mestiza was selected as one of the 100 best books of the century by Hungry Mind Review and the Utne Reader. AnaLouise Keating is a nepantlera, spiritual activist, and associate professor of Women's Studies at Texas Women's University. She is the author of Women Reading Women Writing and has published articles on critical race theory, queer theory, and Latina and African American women writers.