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Title: this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation by Gloria E. Anzaldua, Analouise Keating ISBN: 0-415-93682-9 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Summary: One of Dr. Keatings students weighs in
Comment: This book was one of the required readings for our "Women of Color" course, and I found it well-written, highly engrossing and very inspiring.

Keating and Anzaldua have reunited to provide the long-anticipated sequel to "This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color"--with an expanded list of contributors including white women and men of all ethnicities.

The decision to include these groups was criticized by some women of color who felt the original book's importance was diluted through the agreement, but enhances reading and study of the raised issues.

Mixing both art and theory, the book actively seeks to both celebrate the differences of various groups while uniting them into one struggle for social justice. Because the journey to such freedom is inherently difficult and long, separatism is not a practical option for many of the contributors.

Indeed, separatism's short-term benefits of self-affirmation quickly finds itself limited through the reality people can/do have more than one subordinating characteristic and the interconnectedness of society at large. Each contributor's respective identities provide shielding and stress to varying degrees---the task is to work towards the day when all of them accept an individual as a whole.

To this extent, the contributors and authors also place a premium on personal care and rejuvenation. What seems like a misplaced concept in a much politicized text is a key piece of advice from seasoned activists. Recognizing and admitting the interconnectedness and pervasive nature of discrimination is critical, but it is impossible for any one person to save the world alone (let alone overnight) and nor should anybody feel pressured to do so.

Because the original book's contributors have become 'old friends' to many readers seeing themselves reflected in the pages, the editors were insistent upon including the voices of original contributors. Most interesting is Max Wolf Valerio (previously credited as Anita Valerio) who discovered his real identity as a man and underwent the requisite changes to allow external features to match internal identity. Valerio also found comfort in indigenous Indian cultures which have a more fluid concept of gender than the dominant Anglo society.

Also different is the noticeably increased percentage of academic works, as opposed to the more personal slant of the initial book. While part of this environment is (yes) due to the increased representation of those groups most likely to be in the much-exalted Ivory Tower, it is also due to women of color's increased presence in academia itself.

The book is marketed for women's/ethnic/queer studies, but it would also be an appropriate text for government/political science classes from the urgency which social change is presented throughout.

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