{"id":1321,"date":"2012-05-01T13:21:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T13:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.damne.net\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2026-01-19T23:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:30:53","slug":"this-bridge-called-my-back-writings-by-radical-women-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/?p=1321","title":{"rendered":"This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Berkeley, Third Woman Press (2002).<br \/>\nby <strong>Gloria Anzald\u00faa<\/strong> and <strong>Cherr\u00ede Moraga<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color is a feminist anthology edited by Cherr\u00ede Moraga and Gloria E. Anzald\u00faa. The anthology was first published in 1981 by Persephone Press, and the second edition was published in 1984 by Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press. The book was out in its third edition, published by Third Woman Press, until 2008, when its contract with Third Woman Press expired and it went out of print. This Bridge centered the experiences of women of color, offering a serious challenge to white feminists who made claims to solidarity based on sisterhood. Writings in the anthology, along with works by other prominent feminists of color, call for a greater prominence within feminism for race-related subjectivities, and ultimately laid the foundation for third wave feminism. This Bridge has become &#8220;one of the most cited books in feminist theorizing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cherriemoraga.com\/\"><strong>Cherr\u00ede L. Moraga<\/strong><\/a> is playwright, poet, and essayist whose plays and publications have received national recognition, including a TCG Theatre Artist Residency Grant in 1996, the NEA&#8217;s Theatre Playwrights&#8217; Fellowship in 1993, and two Fund for New American Plays Awards.\u00a0 In 2007, she was awarded the United States Artist Rockefeller Fellowship for Literature; in 2008, a Creative Work Fund Award,\u00a0 and in 2009, a Gerbode-Hewlett Foundation Grant for Playwiting.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><\/strong>Moraga is the co-editor of <em>This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color,<\/em> which won the Before Columbus American Book Award in 1986.\u00a0\u00a0 She is the author of the now classic <em>Loving in the War Years: Lo Que Nunca Pas\u00f3 Por Sus Labios <\/em>(1983\/2003) and<em> The Last Generation <\/em>(1993), published by South End Press of Cambridge, MA.\u00a0 In 1997, she published a memoir on motherhood entitled<em> Waiting in the Wings<\/em> (Firebrand Books) and is completing a memoir on the subject of Mexican American cultural amnesia entitled <em>Send Them Flying Home:\u00a0 A Geography of Remembrance.\u00a0 <\/em>This year Moraga also completed a new collection of writings &#8212;\u00a0\u00a0 <em>A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness:\u00a0 Writings 2000-2010,<\/em> published by Duke University Press in 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Gloria Anzald\u00faa<\/strong> (1942\u20132004) was a scholar of Chicana cultural, feminist, and queer theory. Her most well-known book, Borderlands\/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987) is on her life growing up on the Mexican-Texas border and incorporated her lifelong feelings of social and cultural marginalization into her work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/pdfs\/this-bridge-called-my-back-writings-by-radical-women-of-color.pdf\">download pdf&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Gloria Anzald\u00faa and Cherr\u00ede Moraga<\/p>\n<p>This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color is a feminist anthology edited by Cherr\u00ede Moraga and Gloria E. Anzald\u00faa. This Bridge centered the experiences of women of color, offering a serious challenge to white feminists who made claims to solidarity based on sisterhood. Writings in the anthology, along with works by other prominent feminists of color, call for a greater prominence within feminism for race-related subjectivities, and ultimately laid the foundation for third wave feminism. This Bridge has become &#8220;one of the most cited books in feminist theorizing&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5199,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions\/5199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}