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This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

by Cherríe L. Moraga

Published for the first time: 1/1/1981

261 pages, Paperback

Genres: Social Justice, Politics, Nonfiction, Essays, Race, Poetry, Feminism

This groundbreaking collection reflects an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color. Through personal essays, criticism, interviews, testimonials, poetry, and visual art, the collection explores, as coeditor Cherríe Moraga writes, “the complex confluence of identities—race, class, gender, and sexuality—systemic to women of color oppression and liberation.”

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