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Is the message of intersectionality in This Bridge Called my Back still relevant and necessary today? In what ways do activist groups still need to improve in intersectionality?

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"Twenty-one years ago we struggled with the recognition of difference within the context of commonality. Today we grapple with the recognition of commonality within the context of difference. While This Bridge Called My Back displaced whiteness, this bridge we call home carries that displacement further. It questions the terms white and women of color by showing that whiteness may not be applied to all whites, because some possess women-of-color consciousness, just as some women of color bear white consciousness. We intend to change notions of identity, viewing it as part of a more complex system covering a larger terrain, and demonstrating that the politics of exclusion based on traditional categories diminishes our humanness." (Anzaldua) What is your opinion of this quote, more specifically the notion that some whites have "women-of-color consciousness" and vice versa. Do you believe this is a true idea? http://search.ebscohost.com.dbsearch.fredonia.edu:2048/login.aspx?direct=true&db=sih&AN=7574080&site=ehost-live

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"Twenty-one years ago we struggled with the recognition of difference within the context of commonality. Today we grapple with the recognition of commonality within the context of difference. While This Bridge Called My Back displaced whiteness, this bridge we call home carries that displacement further. It questions the terms white and women of color by showing that whiteness may not be applied to all whites, because some possess women-of-color consciousness, just as some women of color bear white consciousness. We intend to change notions of identity, viewing it as part of a more complex system covering a larger terrain, and demonstrating that the politics of exclusion based on traditional categories diminishes our humanness." (Anzaldua) What is your opinion of this quote, more specifically the notion that some whites have "women-of-color consciousness" and vice versa. Do you believe this is a true idea? http://search.ebscohost.com.dbsearch.fredonia.edu:2048/login.aspx?direct=true&db=sih&AN=7574080&site=ehost-live

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The article talks about the effect of This Bridge called my back on the new generation of feminists and activists.

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Works Cited

https://www.smith.edu/library/libs/ssc/vof/transcripts/Moraga.pdf

http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/language/quotes_alpha.html

http://www1.cuny.edu/portal_ur/content/voting_cal/americans_chinese.html http://womenshistory.about.com/od/feminism-second-wave/a/1970s-Feminism-Timeline.html

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/feminism-second-wave/a/1960s-Feminism-Timeline.html

http://www.feminist.org/research/chronicles/fc1981.html

http://www.feminist.org/research/chronicles/fc1963a.html

 Anderson, Kelly. Interview with Cherrie Moraga. Sophia Smith Collection: Voices of Feminism Oral History Project (June 2005): 1-89. Web. 4 Nov. 2015

Keating, AnaLouise. “Gloria E. Anzaldua.” American National Biography Online. Oxford University Press, April 2014. WEb. 4 Nov. 2005

Miguela, Antonia Dominguez. “Biography--Criticism.” Gloria Anzaldua. Universidad de Huelvo, 4 Oct. 2014. Web. 4 Nov. 2005

Anzaldúa, Gloria, and Moraga, Cherríe, eds. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. 4th ed. State University of New York, 2015. Print.

Anzaldúa, Gloria. “La Prieta.” Anzaldúa and Moraga 198-209.

Combahee River Collective. “A Black Feminist Statement.” Anzaldúa

and Moraga 210-218.

Lorde, Audre. “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House.” Anzaldúa and Moraga 96.

http://search.ebscohosgt.com.dbsearch.fredonia.edu:2048/login.aspx?direct=true&db=sih&AN=7574080&site=ehost-live Anzaldua, Gloria E. "Beyond Traditional Notions Of Identity." Chronicle Of Higher Education 49.7 (n.d.): B11. SocINDEX with Full Text. Web. 7 Nov. 2015. http://whatweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Ada-Pinkston-This-Bridge-Called-My-Back-or-the-neverending-labor-of-creating-space-to-move-past-the-isms-.jpg Miranda, Deborah A. "What's Wrong With A Little Fantasy?: Storytelling From The (Still) Ivory Tower." American Indian Quarterly 27.1/2 (n.d.): 333-348. SocINDEX with Full Text. Web. 7 Nov. 2015. http://search.ebscohost.com.dbsearch.fredonia.edu:2048/login.aspx?direct=true&db=sih&AN=14613403&site=ehost-live http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Bridge-Called-My-Back-spans-new-activist-generation/53104.html

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I think: what is my responsibility to my roots--both white and brown, Spanish-speaking and English? I am a woman with a foot in both worlds; and I refuse the split. I feel the necessity for dialogue. Sometimes I feel it urgently.

Cherrie Moraga, “La Guera”

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I am not talking here about some lazy faith, where we resign ourselves to the tragic splittings in our lives with an upward turn of the hands or a vicious beating of our breasts. I am talking about believing that we have the power to actually transform our experience, change our lives, save our lives. Otherwise, why this book? Is it the faith of activists I am talking about.

Cherrie Moraga, “La Jornada”

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What are your thoughts on “passing privilege”? Should People of Color with passing privilege take advantage of it, according to the tone of “La Guera” by Cherrie Moraga? Why or why not?

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Based on the Preface, who is this anthology written for? Who is the intended audience? People of color? White people? Is the audience supposed to be gender-specific?

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Yolanda M. López. Portrait of the Artist as the Virgin of Guadalupe from the Guadalupe series. 1978. Oil pastel on rag paper, 22 x 30 inches.

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Liberation of Aunt Jemima, 1972