ABSTRACT

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. Anzaldúa 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.

chapter 1|1 pages

Open the Door

ByNOVA GUTIERREZ

chapter 2|14 pages

Chameleon IOBEL ANDEMICAEL

chapter 4|3 pages

Nacido en un Puente/Born on a Bridge

ByHECTOR CARBAJAL

chapter 5|6 pages

Engaging Contradictions, Creating Home . . . Three Letters

ByThree Letters ALICIA P. RODRIGUEZ AND SUSANA L. VASQUEZ

chapter 6|3 pages

Bridges/Backs/Books: A Love Letter to the Editors

ByJESSE SWAN

chapter 9|4 pages

The Spirit of This Bridge

ByDONNA HIGHTOWER LANGSTON

chapter 10|23 pages

Remembering This Bridge, Remembering Ourselves: Yearning, Memory, and Desire

ByM. JACQUI ALEXANDER

chapter 11|1 pages

Seventh Fire

ByJOANNE DINOVA

chapter 12|1 pages

Interracial

ByAMY SARA CARROLL

chapter 13|4 pages

Los Intersticios: Recasting Moving Selves

ByEVELYN ALSULTANY

chapter 14|6 pages

Gallina Ciega: Turning the Game on Itself

ByLETICIA HERNÁNDEZ-LINARES

chapter 18|1 pages

A Letter to a Mother, from Her Son

ByHECTOR CARBAJAL

chapter 19|8 pages

Young Man Popkin: A Queer Dystopia

ByMARLA MORRIS

chapter 21|3 pages

The Real Americana

ByKIMBERLY ROPPOLO

chapter 22|7 pages

Shades of a Bridge’s Breath

ByNATHALIE HANDAL

chapter 24|5 pages

(Re)Writing Home: A Daughter’s Letter to Her Mother

ByMINH-HA T. PHAM

chapter 26|1 pages

Burning House

ByLILIANA WILSON GREZ

chapter 28|6 pages

Footnoting Heresy: E-mail Dialogues

ByDEBORAH A. MIRANDA, ANALOUISE KEATING

chapter 31|7 pages

Lesbianism, 2000

ByCHERYL CLARKE

chapter 33|4 pages

Poets, Lovers, and the Master’s Tools: A Conversation with Audre Lorde

Bywith Audre Lorde MARY LOVING BLANCHARD

chapter 35|10 pages

DON’T TOUCH: RECUERDOS (SELF-DESTRUCTION)

ByBERTA AVILA

chapter 37|8 pages

The Reckoning

ByJOY HARJO

chapter 38|1 pages

Puente del Fuego

ByNOVA GUTIERREZ

chapter 39|1 pages

Vanish Is a Toilet Bowl Cleaner CHRYSTOS

chapter 40|6 pages

Yo’ Done Bridge Is Fallin’ Down

ByJUDITH K. WITHEROW

chapter 41|2 pages

Council Meeting

ByMARISELA B. GOMEZ

chapter 42|6 pages

For My Sister: Smashing the Walls of Pretense and Shame

ByANONYMOUS

chapter 43|3 pages

Resisting the Shore

ByNADINE NABER

chapter 44|9 pages

Standing on This Bridge

ByCHANDRA FORD

chapter 45|1 pages

Stolen Beauty

ByGENNY LIM

chapter 46|11 pages

Looking for Warrior Woman (Beyond Pocahontas)

ByJOANNE BARKER

chapter 47|5 pages

So Far from the Bridge

ByRENAE BREDIN

chapter 48|9 pages

The Ricky Ricardo Syndrome: Looking for Leaders, Finding Celebrities

ByROSA MARIA PEGUEROS

chapter 49|2 pages

Survival

ByJEANETTE AGUILAR

chapter 50|16 pages

Imagining Differently: The Politics of Listening in a Feminist Classroom

BySARAH J. CERVENAK, KARINA L. CESPEDES, CARIDAD SOUZA

chapter 51|1 pages

Nurturance

ByKAY PICART

chapter 52|11 pages

Aliens and Others in Search of the Tribe in Academe

ByTATIANA DE LA TIERRA

chapter 53|3 pages

The Fire in My Heart

BySUNU P. CHANDY

chapter 54|9 pages

Notes from a Welfare Queen in the Ivory Tower

ByLAURA A. HARRIS

chapter 56|1 pages

This World Is My Place

ByBERNADETTE GARCÍA

chapter 59|12 pages

Andrea’s Third Shift: The Invisible Work of African-American Women in Higher Education

ByTONI C. KING, LENORA BARNES-WRIGHT, NANCY E. GIBSON,

chapter 61|6 pages

Healing Sueños for Academia

ByIRENE LARA

chapter 62|1 pages

my tears are wings

chapter 63|9 pages

The Colors Beneath Our Skin

ByCARMEN MORONES

chapter 64|1 pages

Connection: The Bridge Finds Its Voice

chapter 65|8 pages

The Body Politic—Meditations on Identity

ByELANA DYKEWOMON

chapter 66|5 pages

Speaking of Privilege

chapter 69|10 pages

Tenuous Alliance

ByARLENE (ARI) ISTAR LEV

chapter 70|3 pages

Chamizal

ByALICIA GASPAR DE ALBA

chapter 72|1 pages

Girl and Snake

ByLILIANA WILSON GREZ

chapter 73|10 pages

Thawing Hearts, Opening a Path in the Woods, Founding a New Lineage

ByHELENE SHULMAN LORENZ

chapter 75|7 pages

“And Revolution Is Possible”: Re-Membering the Vision of This Bridge

ByRANDY P. L. CONNER AND DAVID HATFIELD SPARKS

chapter 76|2 pages

Witch Museum

ByALICIA GASPAR DE ALBA

chapter 77|11 pages

Forging El Mundo Zurdo: Changing Ourselves, Changing the World

ByANALOUISE KEATING

chapter 79|1 pages

continentsl

ByANNE WATERS

chapter 80|39 pages

now let us shift . . . the path of conocimiento . . . inner work, public acts

ByGLORIA E. ANZALDÚA