A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness
Writings, 2000-2010
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Published on 7. June 2011
280 pages
978-0-8223-9396-2 (ISBN)
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Collection of essays and poems that address the challenges of being a Chicana, a lesbian, and a feminist in the changing world of the twenty-first century.
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Cherríe L. Moraga is an award-winning playwright, poet, essayist, and activist. She is the author of Loving in the War Years and co-editor, with Gloria Anzaldúa, of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Moraga is a founding member of La RED Xicana Indígena, a network of Xicana activists committed to indigenous political education, spiritual practice, and grassroots organizing. She is an Artist-in-Residence in the Drama Department at Stanford University, where she also teaches in the Program in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.
Content
Drawings by Celia Herrera Rodríguez xiii
Prólogo: A Living Codex xv
Agradecimentos xix
A Xicana Lexicon xxi
One. Existo Yo
A XicanaDyke Codex of Changing Consciousness 3
From Inside the First World: On 9/11 and Women-of-Color Feminism 18
An Irrevocable Promise: Staging the Story Xicana 34
Two. The Warring Inside
What Is Left of Us 49
MeXicana Blues 51
Weapons of the Weak: On Fear and Political Resistance 54
California Dreaming 73
Cuento Xicano 76
Indígena as Scribe: The (W)rite to Remember 79
The Altar of My Undoing 97
Three. Salt of the Earth
Aguas Sagradas 105
And It Is All These Things That Are Our Grief: Eulogy for Marsha Gómez 107
Poetry of Heroism: A Tribute to Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 111
The Salt That Cures: Remembering Gloria Anzaldúa 116
Four. The Price of Beans
South Central Farmers 133
The Other Face of (Im)migration: In Conversation with West Asian Feminists 135
Floricanto 146
Modern-Day Malinches 148
What's Race Gotta Do With It? On the Election of Barack Obama 151
This Benighted Nation We Name Home: On the Fortieth Anniversary of Ethnic Studies 163
Still Loving in the (Still) War Years: On Keeping Queer Queer 175
Epílogo: Xicana Mind, Beginner Mind 193
Appendix: Sola, Pero Bien Acompañada: The Art of Celia Herrera Rodríguez 201
Notes 209
Bibliography 229
Index 237
Prólogo: A Living Codex xv
Agradecimentos xix
A Xicana Lexicon xxi
One. Existo Yo
A XicanaDyke Codex of Changing Consciousness 3
From Inside the First World: On 9/11 and Women-of-Color Feminism 18
An Irrevocable Promise: Staging the Story Xicana 34
Two. The Warring Inside
What Is Left of Us 49
MeXicana Blues 51
Weapons of the Weak: On Fear and Political Resistance 54
California Dreaming 73
Cuento Xicano 76
Indígena as Scribe: The (W)rite to Remember 79
The Altar of My Undoing 97
Three. Salt of the Earth
Aguas Sagradas 105
And It Is All These Things That Are Our Grief: Eulogy for Marsha Gómez 107
Poetry of Heroism: A Tribute to Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 111
The Salt That Cures: Remembering Gloria Anzaldúa 116
Four. The Price of Beans
South Central Farmers 133
The Other Face of (Im)migration: In Conversation with West Asian Feminists 135
Floricanto 146
Modern-Day Malinches 148
What's Race Gotta Do With It? On the Election of Barack Obama 151
This Benighted Nation We Name Home: On the Fortieth Anniversary of Ethnic Studies 163
Still Loving in the (Still) War Years: On Keeping Queer Queer 175
Epílogo: Xicana Mind, Beginner Mind 193
Appendix: Sola, Pero Bien Acompañada: The Art of Celia Herrera Rodríguez 201
Notes 209
Bibliography 229
Index 237
