Foreword to the First Edition, 1981

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Artwork xiii
4. Enough Is Enough xvi
5. Acts of Healing xxiii
6. Catching Fire xxv
7. Foreword to the First Edition, 1981 xxxvii
8. The Bridge Poem xli
9. La Jornada xliii
10. Introduction, 1981 li
11. Children Passing in the Streets
12. Children Passing in the Streets 3
13. When I Was Growing Up 5
14. on not bein 7
15. For the Color of My Mother 10
16. I Am What I Am 12
17. Dreams of Violence 14
18. He Saw 16
19. Entering the Lives of Others
20. Entering the Lives of Others 19
21. Wonder Woman 20
22. La Güera 22
23. Invisibility Is an Unnatural Disaster 30
24. It’s in My Blood, My Face— My Mother’s Voice, the Way I Sweat 36
25. “Gee, You Don’t Seem Like an Indian from the Reservation” 41
26. “. . . And Even Fidel Can’t Change That!” 48
27. I Walk in the History of My People 53
28. And When You Leave, Take Your Pictures with You
29. And When You Leave, Take Your Pictures with You 57
30. And When You Leave, Take Your Pictures with You 60
31. Beyond the Cliffs of Abiquiu 62
32. I Don’t Understand Those Who Have Turned Away from Me 65
33. Asian Pacific American Women and Feminism 68
34. “—But I Know You, American Woman” 73
35. The Black Back-Ups 78
36. The Pathology of Racism 81
37. We’re All in the Same Boat 87
38. An Open Letter to Mary Daly 90
39. The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House 94
40. Between the Lines
41. Between the Lines 101
42. The Other Heritage 104
43. The Tired Poem: Last Letter from a Typical (Unemployed) Black Professional Woman 106
44. To Be Continued . . . 109
45. Across the Kitchen Table 111
46. Lesbianism 126
47. Lowriding through the Women’s Movement 136
48. Letter to Ma 138
49. I Come with No Illusions 146
50. I Paid Very Hard for My Immigrant Ignorance 148
51. Earth-Lover, Survivor, Musician 155
52. Speaking in Tongues
53. Speaking in Tongues 161
54. Speaking in Tongues 161
55. Millicent Fredericks 173
56. In Search of the Self as Hero 176
57. Chicana’s Feminist Literature 181
58. Ceremony for Completing a Poetry Reading 190
59. El Mundo Zurdo
60. El Mundo Zurdo 195
61. Give Me Back 197
62. La Prieta 198
63. A Black Feminist Statement 210
64. The Welder 219
65. O.K. Momma, Who the Hell Am I? 221
66. Brownness 232
67. Revolution 238
68. No Rock Scorns Me as Whore 243
69. Afterword 249
70. Foreword to the Second Edition, 1983 253
71. Refugees of a World on Fire 255
72. Counsels from the Firing . . . Past, Present, Future 261
73. Biographies of Contributors 267
74. Biographies of the Original Contributors, 1981 277
75. Credits 283