From the Book - Fourth edition.
Catching fire: preface to the Fourth Edition / Cherríe Moraga --
Acts of healing / Gloria Anzaldúa and The Gloria E. Anzaldúa Literary Trust --
Foreword to the First Edition, 1981 / Toni Cade Bambara --
The bridge poem / Kate Rushin --
La jornada: preface, 1981 / Cherríe Moraga --
Introduction, 1981 / Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa --
I. Children Passing in the Streets: The Roots of Our Radicalism. When I was growing up / Nellie Wong --
On not bein / Mary Hope Whitehead Lee --
For the color of my mother / Cherríe Moraga --
I am what I am / Rosario Morales --
Dreams of violence / Naomi Littlebear Morena --
II. Entering the Lives of Others: Theory in the Flesh. Wonder woman / Genny Lim --
La güera / Cherríe Moraga --
Invisibility is an unnatural disaster: reflections of an Asian American woman / Mitsuye Yamada --
It's in my blood, my face
my mother's voice, the way I sweat /
"Gee you don't seem like an Indian from the reservation" / Barbara Cameron --
" ... and even Fidel can't change that!" / Aurora Levins Morales --
I walk in the history of my people / Chrystos --
III. And When You Leave, Take Your Pictures With You: Racism in the Women's Movement. And when you leave, take your pictures with you / Jo Carillo --
Beyond the cliffs of Abiquiu / Jo Carillo --
I don't understand those who have turned away from me / Chrystos --
Asian Pacific women and feminism / Mitsuye Yamada --
but I know you, American woman" /
The Black back-ups / Kate Rushin --
The pathology of racism: a conversation with third world wimmin / Doris Davenport --
We're all in the same boat / Rosario Morales --
An open letter to Mary Daly / Audre Lorde --
The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house / Audre Lorde --
IV. Between the Lines: On Culture, Class, and Homophobia. The other heritage / Rosario Morales --
The tired poem: last letter from a typical (unemployed) Black professional woman / Kate Rushin --
To be continued ... / Kate Rushin --
Across the kitchen table: a sister-to-sister dialogue / Barbara Smith and Beverly Smith --
Lesbianism: an act of resistance / Cheryl Clarke --
Lowriding through the women's movement / Barbara Noda --
Letter to ma / Merle Woo --
I come with no illusions / Mirtha N. Quintanales --
I paid very hard for my immigrant ignorance / Mirtha N. Quintanales --
Earth-lover, survivor, musician / Naomi Littlebear Morena --
V. Speaking in Tongues: The Third World Woman Writer. Speaking in tongues: a letter to third world women writers / Gloria Anzaldúa --
Millicent Fredericks / Gabrielle Daniels --
In Search of the self as hero: confetti of voices on New Year's night, a letter to myself / Nellie Wong --
Chicana's feminist literature: a re-vision through Malintzin/or Malintzin putting flesh back on the object / Norma Alarcón --
Ceremony for completing a poetry reading / Chrystos --
VI. El Mundo Zurdo: The Vision. Give me back / Chrystos --
La prieta / Gloria Anzaldúa --
A Black feminist statement / Combahee River Collective --
The welder / Cherríe Moraga --
O.K. momma, who the hell am I? an interview with Luisah Teish / Gloria Anzaldúa --
Brownness / Andrea Canaan --
Revolution: it's not neat or pretty or quick / Pat Parker --
No rock scorns me as whore / Chrystos --
Appendix. Afterword: On the Fourth Edition / Cherríe Moraga --
Foreword to the Second Edition, 1983 / Gloria Anzaldúa --
Refugees of a world on fire: Foreword to the Second Edition, 1983 / Cherríe Moraga --
Counsels from the firing ... past, present, future: Foreword to the Third Edition, 2001 / Gloria Anzaldúa.
