Book
This bridge called my back : writings by radical women of color
Edition
Fourth edition.
Publication Information
Albany, NY : SUNY Press, [2015]
Physical Description
xlvii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents
- Catching fire: preface to the Fourth Edition / Acts of healing / The bridge poem / La jornada: preface, 1981 / When I was growing up / On not bein / For the color of my mother / I am what I am / Dreams of violence / He saw / Wonder woman / La güera / Invisibility is an unnatural disaster: reflections of an Asian American woman / It's in my blood, my face--my mother's voice, the way I sweat / "Gee you don't seem like an Indian from the reservation" / " ... and even Fidel can't change that!" / I walk in the history of my people / And when you leave, take your pictures with you / Beyond the cliffs of Abiquiu / I don't understand those who have turned away from me / Asian Pacific women and feminism / "--but I know you, American woman" / The Black back-ups / The pathology of racism: a conversation with third world wimmin / We're all in the same boat / An open letter to Mary Daly / The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house / The other heritage / The tired poem: last letter from a typical (unemployed) Black professional woman / To be continued ... / Across the kitchen table: a sister-to-sister dialogue / Lesbianism: an act of resistance / Lowriding through the women's movement / Letter to ma / I come with no illusions / I paid very hard for my immigrant ignorance / Earth-lover, survivor, musician / Speaking in tongues: a letter to third world women writers / Millicent Fredericks / In Search of the self as hero: confetti of voices on New Year's night, a letter to myself / Chicana's feminist literature: a re-vision through Malintzin/or Malintzin putting flesh back on the object / Ceremony for completing a poetry reading / Give me back / La prieta / A Black feminist statement / The welder / O.K. momma, who the hell am I? an interview with Luisah Teish / Brownness / Revolution: it's not neat or pretty or quick / No rock scorns me as whore / On the Fourth Edition / Refugees of a world on fire: Foreword to the Second Edition, 1983 / Counsels from the firing ... past, present, future: Foreword to the Third Edition, 2001