This Bridge Called My Back, 4th Edition edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua

My Master's degree focus was on Latina and Native American Indian women's literature.  As such, I read many of Gloria Anzaldua's works, most notably Borderlands/La Frontera, which I donated to the WHHS Library and plan to re-read this summer as part of my journey.  We also have her children's story Prietita y La Llorona and now this, a new 2015 edition of the foundational 1981 collection, published at the same time as her last manuscript posthumously.

This is an anthology of marginalized women's literature, a place where race, class, sexuality, and gender all intersect.  I would say the most well-known piece contained therein to be Audre Lorde's "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House", an examination of being a black lesbian in the world of white straight women's feminism.

As I said in my review of Good Wives, there is a serious gap in the readings in American Literature and American History courses, which silences an entire experience.  "Black lesbian feminist" has a place in the curriculum, just as "white straight feminist" does.  Keeping readings by Lorde, Anzaldua, and others in "Women's Studies" courses prevents access and interaction.  I also appreciate that this new edition includes the visual arts. 

Look for this back on the shelf in our new home soon!

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