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

Artwork

Catching fire: preface to the Fourth Edition / Cherríe Moraga

Acts of healing / Gloria Anzaldúa and The Gloria E. Anzaldúa Literary Trust

Foreword to the First Edition, 1981 / Toni Cade Bambara

The bridge poem / Kate Rushin

La jornada: preface, 1981 / Cherríe Moraga

Introduction, 1981 / Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa

I. Children Passing in the Streets: The Roots of Our Radicalism. When I was growing up / Nellie Wong

On not bein / Mary Hope Whitehead Lee

For the color of my mother / Cherríe Moraga

I am what I am / Rosario Morales

Dreams of violence / Naomi Littlebear Morena

He saw / Chrystos

II. Entering the Lives of Others: Theory in the Flesh. Wonder woman / Genny Lim

La güera / Cherríe Moraga

Invisibility is an unnatural disaster: reflections of an Asian American woman / Mitsuye Yamada

It's in my blood, my face

my mother's voice, the way I sweat /

Anita Valerio

"Gee you don't seem like an Indian from the reservation" / Barbara Cameron

" ... and even Fidel can't change that!" / Aurora Levins Morales

I walk in the history of my people / Chrystos

III. And When You Leave, Take Your Pictures With You: Racism in the Women's Movement. And when you leave, take your pictures with you / Jo Carillo

Beyond the cliffs of Abiquiu / Jo Carillo

I don't understand those who have turned away from me / Chrystos

Asian Pacific women and feminism / Mitsuye Yamada

"

but I know you, American woman" /

Judit Moschkovich

The Black back-ups / Kate Rushin

The pathology of racism: a conversation with third world wimmin / Doris Davenport

We're all in the same boat / Rosario Morales

An open letter to Mary Daly / Audre Lorde

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house / Audre Lorde

IV. Between the Lines: On Culture, Class, and Homophobia. The other heritage / Rosario Morales

The tired poem: last letter from a typical (unemployed) Black professional woman / Kate Rushin

To be continued ... / Kate Rushin

Across the kitchen table: a sister-to-sister dialogue / Barbara Smith and Beverly Smith

Lesbianism: an act of resistance / Cheryl Clarke

Lowriding through the women's movement / Barbara Noda

Letter to ma / Merle Woo

I come with no illusions / Mirtha N. Quintanales

I paid very hard for my immigrant ignorance / Mirtha N. Quintanales

Earth-lover, survivor, musician / Naomi Littlebear Morena

V. Speaking in Tongues: The Third World Woman Writer. Speaking in tongues: a letter to third world women writers / Gloria Anzaldúa

Millicent Fredericks / Gabrielle Daniels

In Search of the self as hero: confetti of voices on New Year's night, a letter to myself / Nellie Wong

Chicana's feminist literature: a re-vision through Malintzin/or Malintzin putting flesh back on the object / Norma Alarcón

Ceremony for completing a poetry reading / Chrystos

VI. El Mundo Zurdo: The Vision. Give me back / Chrystos

La prieta / Gloria Anzaldúa

A Black feminist statement / Combahee River Collective

The welder / Cherríe Moraga

O.K. momma, who the hell am I? an interview with Luisah Teish / Gloria Anzaldúa

Brownness / Andrea Canaan

Revolution: it's not neat or pretty or quick / Pat Parker

No rock scorns me as whore / Chrystos

Appendix. Afterword: On the Fourth Edition / Cherríe Moraga

Foreword to the Second Edition, 1983 / Gloria Anzaldúa

Refugees of a world on fire: Foreword to the Second Edition, 1983 / Cherríe Moraga

Counsels from the firing ... past, present, future: Foreword to the Third Edition, 2001 / Gloria Anzaldúa.