![]() ![]() This Bridge Called My Back is an account of US women of color coming to a late 20th-century social consciousness through conflict-familial, institutional-and arriving at a politic, a “theory in the flesh.”īridge is an essential text to the modern reader looking to understand women of color’s feminist radical thinking that gave rise to the social consciousness of contemporary Chicana Feminist thought. In 1981, Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa compiled and edited several writings from women of color who wrote in opposition to having their political voice historically silenced, neglected, and made invisible within public policies this enabled them to create a ‘bridge of consciousness’ and amplify their voices. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color – Fortieth Anniversary Edition ![]()
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