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The Spanish translation and adaptation of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, rendered by Norma Alarcon and Ana Castillo. Adapted for a Latina readership, Esta puente, mi espalda contains personal narratives, essays, and poems by radical women of color in the U.S. including Barbara Smith, Gloria Anzaldua, Chrystos, Nellie Wong, Aurora Levins Morales, and many more.
The term 'women of color' includes those of Asian, African, Latin American and Native American descent, who distinguish themselves politically from the dominant culture. They expose and analyze, from a feminist standpoint, the racism that exists in U.S. society, including feminist groups dominated by white women, and the sexism that pervades life..." writes the Mexican women's monthly fem.
This is an enriching book. Through reading it, we Latin American feminist women can identify the racism pervading our societies as well, which try as we may to conceal it does affect our personal and political relationships. Likewise, classism... undermines our solidarity, as does homophobia which hurts lesbians, and sexism, from which many women have not yet freed themselves.
The Chicana editors of Esta puente, mi espalda have rekindled the feminine form of puente (bridge) that existed poetically in old Spanish.
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Freddy Taylor
reviewed Esta puente, mi espalda on May 21, 2008 Esta puente
Don't try to read queer theory or anything on your gender studies syllabus without reading this book first. because that shit all came from this shit, no matter what all the white queer theorists try to tell you.
but seriously. theoretically, the trajectory is there. these women came up with what we all now understand as the reality that multiplicity is how each of us navigate the world (ok some other folks did it too, for sure) and those multiplicities occur simultaneously, both internally and externally, at all times. i've been in academic situations where students think that foucault or paolo friere or judith butler came up with this. yikes.
these are the words that are most at risk of being lost in gender/queer/sexuality academia today, so make sure you are reading it before getting deep into these fields! make sure your favorite theorists today are quoting moraga and lorde and p. smith and barbara ramsey! (ps. for all you haters judith butler does this. :P )
thankfully, the coolest voices out there in queer theory today are folks writing from a post-colonial queer perspective who are down with this shit. who are not forgetting these crucial voices when necessarily calling for the renegotiation of identity politics.
next, read "Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Women of Color" also edited by Moraga
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