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This Bridge Called My Back: writings by radical women of color Paperback – March 1 2015

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ State Univ of New York Pr; 4th edition (March 1 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 286 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1438454384
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1438454382
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 227 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 2.13 x 22.86 cm
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Cherríe Moraga is a co-editor of THIS BRIDGE CALLED MY BACK: WRITINGS BY RADICAL WOMEN OF COLOR, republished in a new edition by SUNY Press in 2015. As a political and literary essayist, she has published several collections of writings, including A XICANA CODEX OF CHANGING CONSCIOUSNESS -- Writings 2000-2010. Moraga is the recipient of the United States Artist Rockefeller Fellowship for Literature, the American Studies Association Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Lambda Foundation’s “Pioneer” award, among many other honors.

Her most recently premiered play, 'New Fire: To Put Things Right Again,' which she also directed, opened at Brava Theater Center in San Francisco in 2012. A collaboration with visual artist, Celia Herrera Rodríguez, over three thousand people witnessed the work. In 2017, Moraga will premiere a new work, the award winning 'The Mathematics of Love," a theatrical conversation with her forthcoming literary memoir, THE NATIVE COUNTRY OF A HEART - A GEOGRAPHY OF DESIRE.

For nearly twenty years she has served as an Artist in Residence in the Department of Theater and Performance Studies and in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. She has mentored a full generation of published writers and playwrights who credit Moraga as one of their most influential teachers. Cherríe Moraga is an activist writer, who sustains an engaged schedule of appearances on college campuses, conferences and community settings both nationally and internationally. She is also a founding member of La Red Xicana Indígena, an advocacy network of Xicanas working in education, the arts, spiritual practice, and indigenous women’s rights.

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