A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness

Informationen zum Autor Cherríe L. Moraga Klappentext A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness features essays and poems by Cherríe L. Moraga, one of the most influential figures in Chicana/o, feminist, queer, and indigenous activism and scholarship. Combining moving personal stories with trenchant political and cultural critique, the writer, activist, teacher, dramatist, mother, daughter, comadre, and lesbian lover looks back on the first ten years of the twenty-first century. She considers decade-defining public events such as 9/11 and the campaign and election of Barack Obama, and she explores socioeconomic, cultural, and political phenomena closer to home, sharing her fears about raising her son amid increasing urban violence and the many forms of dehumanization faced by young men of color. Moraga describes her deepening grief as she loses her mother to Alzheimer's; pays poignant tribute to friends who passed away, including the sculptor Marsha Gómez and the poets Alfred Arteaga, Pat Parker, and Audre Lorde; and offers a heartfelt essay about her personal and political relationship with Gloria Anzaldúa.Thirty years after the publication of Anzaldúa and Moraga's collection This Bridge Called My Back, a landmark of women-of-color feminism, Moraga's literary and political praxis remains motivated by and intertwined with indigenous spirituality and her identity as Chicana lesbian. Yet aspects of her thinking have changed over time. A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness reveals key transformations in Moraga's thought; the breadth, rigor, and philosophical depth of her work; her views on contemporary debates about citizenship, immigration, and gay marriage; and her deepening involvement in transnational feminist and indigenous activism. It is a major statement from one of our most important public intellectuals. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...

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Cherríe L. Moraga

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A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness features essays and poems by Cherríe L. Moraga, one of the most influential figures in Chicana/o, feminist, queer, and indigenous activism and scholarship. Combining moving personal stories with trenchant political and cultural critique, the writer, activist, teacher, dramatist, mother, daughter, comadre, and lesbian lover looks back on the first ten years of the twenty-first century. She considers decade-defining public events such as 9/11 and the campaign and election of Barack Obama, and she explores socioeconomic, cultural, and political phenomena closer to home, sharing her fears about raising her son amid increasing urban violence and the many forms of dehumanization faced by young men of color. Moraga describes her deepening grief as she loses her mother to Alzheimer's; pays poignant tribute to friends who passed away, including the sculptor Marsha Gómez and the poets Alfred Arteaga, Pat Parker, and Audre Lorde; and offers a heartfelt essay about her personal and political relationship with Gloria Anzaldúa. Thirty years after the publication of Anzaldúa and Moraga's collection This Bridge Called My Back, a landmark of women-of-color feminism, Moraga's literary and political praxis remains motivated by and intertwined with indigenous spirituality and her identity as Chicana lesbian. Yet aspects of her thinking have changed over time. A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness reveals key transformations in Moraga's thought; the breadth, rigor, and philosophical depth of her work; her views on contemporary debates about citizenship, immigration, and gay marriage; and her deepening involvement in transnational feminist and indigenous activism. It is a major statement from one of our most important public intellectuals.

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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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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