Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color
10 best books like Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color (Gloria E. Anzaldúa): But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies, Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities, Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism, Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology, Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought, Loving in the War Years, Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism, Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement, Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity
But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies
| Author | Akasha Gloria Hull |
| ISBN | 0912670959 |
I have a complicated history with feminism that is probably not unique for a post-civil rights/black power movement black woman. But, all issues with the word feminism aside, I recognized myself too much in these essays to deny that whether I like it or not, I am constantly inhabiting multiple worlds....
Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology
| Author | Barbara Smith |
| ISBN | 0813527538 |
The pioneering anthology Home Girls features writings by Black feminists and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983, it has become an essential text on Black women's lives and writings. This edition features an updated lists of contributor...
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities
| Author | Ching-In Chen |
| ISBN | 0896087948 |
"Was/is your abusive partner a high-profile activist? Does your abusive girlfriend’s best friend staff the domestic violence hotline? Have you successfully kicked an abuser out of your group? Did your anti-police brutality group fear retaliation if you went to the cops about another organizer’s...
Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism
| Author | Bushra Rehman |
| ISBN | 1580050670 |
It has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the ‘70s feminist movement as exclusive, white, and unaware of the concerns and issues of women of color from around the globe. Now a new generation of brilliant, outspoken women of color is speaking to the concerns...
| Author | Incite! Women of Color Against Violence |
What would it take to end violence against women of color? How does the mainstream antiviolence movement help? How does it hinder? When will we admit that repositioning women of color at the center of the movement--women more often harmed by the police, prisons, and border patrols than aided by them--means...
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought
| Author | Beverly Guy-Sheftall |
| ISBN | 1565842561 |
I enjoyed this reader but I didn't appreciate that it was written ONLY for African-American women. The anthology would have been more comprehensive had it included the experiences of Black women around the world. Are they not connected to African-American woman's experience here in the states?
There's...
| Author | Cherríe L. Moraga |
| ISBN | 0896086267 |
Weaving together poetry and prose, Spanish and English, family history and political theory, Loving in the War Years has been a classic in the feminist and Chicano canon since its 1983 release. This new edition—including a new introduction and three new essays—remains a testament of Moraga's...
Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism
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When feminism itself becomes its own form of oppression, what do we have to say about it? Western notions of polite discourse are not the norm for all of us, and just because we’ve got some new and hot language lately in equity-seeking movements like feminism...
Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement
| Author | Maylei Blackwell |
| ISBN | 0292725884 |
The first book-length study of women's involvement in the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, Chicana Power! tells the powerful story of the emergence of Chicana feminism within student and community-based organizations throughout southern California and the Southwest. As Chicanos...
| Author | Aurora Levins Morales |
| ISBN | 0896085813 |
South End Press sent out a call for manuscripts to selected writers in late 1997 or early 1998. I was in the middle of finishing my book Remedios, and consulted my other and collaborator about whether to take it on. She said to do it, but not worry, to write a B+ book not strive for A+. As a result, I wrote it easily,...
| Author | Loretta J. Ross |
| ISBN | 0896087298 |
“If you have come to help me, please go away. But, if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, let us work together.”—Lila Watson, Aboriginal Activist
Vibrant. Strong. Fierce. Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist history of women...
The unique Chicana voice of Elizabeth Martinez arises from more than thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women's liberation, and Latina/o empowerment.With sections on women's organizing, struggles for economic justice. and the Latina/o youth movement, De Colores Means...
| Author | Ana Castillo |
| ISBN | 0452274249 |
The "I" in these critical essays by novelist, poet, scholar, and activist/curandera Ana Castillo is that of the Mexic-Amerindian woman living in the United States. The essays are addressed to everyone interested in the roots of the colonized woman's reality. Castillo introduces the term Xicanisma...
| Author | Chela Sandoval |
| ISBN | 0816627371 |
In a work with far-reaching implications, Chela Sandoval does no less than revise the genealogy of theory over the past thirty years, inserting what she terms "U.S. Third World feminism" into the narrative in a way that thoroughly alters our perspective on contemporary culture and subjectivity.What...
| Author | Trinh T. Minh-ha |
| ISBN | 0253205034 |
"...methodologically innovative... precise and perceptive and conscious..." -Text and Performance Quarterly
"Woman, Native, Other is located at the juncture of a number of different fields and disciplines, and it genuinely succeeds in pushing the boundaries of these disciplines further....
| Author | Winifred Breines |
| ISBN | 0195179048 |
Inspired by the idealism of the civil rights movement, the women who launched the radical second wave of the feminist movement believed, as a bedrock principle, in universal sisterhood and color-blind democracy. Their hopes, however, were soon dashed. To this day, the failure to create an integrated...
Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement
| Author | Jennifer Nelson |
| ISBN | 0814758274 |
While most people believe that the movement to secure voluntary reproductive control for women centered solely on abortion rights, for many women abortion was not the only, or even primary, focus.
Jennifer Nelson tells the story of the feminist struggle for legal abortion and reproductive...
| Author | Gayatri Gopinath |
| ISBN | 0822335131 |
By bringing queer theory to bear on ideas of diaspora, Gayatri Gopinath produces both a more compelling queer theory and a more nuanced understanding of diaspora. Focusing on queer female diasporic subjectivity, Gopinath develops a theory of diaspora apart from the logic of blood, authenticity,...
Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred
| Author | M. Jacqui Alexander |
| ISBN | 0822336456 |
M. Jacqui Alexander is one of the most important theorists of transnational feminism working today. Pedagogies of Crossing brings together essays she has written over the past decade, uniting her incisive critiques, which have had such a profound impact on feminist, queer, and critical race theories,...
Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism
| Author | Chandra Talpade Mohanty |
| ISBN | 0253206324 |
"The essays are provocative and enhance knowledge of Third World women's issues. Highly recommended... " --Choice
..". the book challenges assumptions and pushes historic and geographical boundaries that must be altered if women of all colors are to win the struggles thrust upon us by the...
Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
| Author | bell hooks |
| ISBN | 0896083527 |
This is the earliest of bell hooks' books that I've read, and the first time I've read about her family and educational background in so much detail. At the start of the book, she discusses how talking about these topics has been difficult for her because they are not permissible topics in her milieu, for...
Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays
| Author | June Jordan |
| ISBN | 0465036937 |
"She remains a thinker and activist who 'insists upon complexity.' " -Reamy Jansen, San Francisco Chronicle
Some of Us Did Not Die brings together a rich sampling of the late poet June Jordan's prose writings. The essays in this collection, which include her last writings and span the length...
