By offering practical applications for using intersectional knowledge, Emerging Intersections will help bring us one step closer to achieving positive institutional change and social justice. Edited by Cherre Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua, this collection of writings by Radical Women of Color, cracked open the manicured shell of white feminism, revealing its racist, homophobic underbelly. The second edition was published in 1983 by Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press. What a revelation it was to reread This Bridge Called My Back. Anzaldúa, first published in 1981 by Persephone Press. The book showcases innovative contributions that expand our understanding of how inequality affects people of color, demonstrates the ways public policies reinforce existing systems of inequality, and shows how research and teaching using an intersectional perspective compels scholars to become agents of change within institutions. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color is a feminist anthology edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. world on fire described in the 1983 edition of This Bridge Called My Back. Emerging Intersections, an anthology of ten previously unpublished essays, looks at the problems of inequality and oppression from new angles and promotes intersectionality as an interpretive tool that can be utilized to better understand the ways in which race, class, gender, ethnicity, and other dimensions of difference shape our lives today. 10 Foreword The War Path of Greater Empowerment CHERRE L. The United States is known as a "melting pot" yet this mix tends to be volatile and contributes to a long history of oppression, racism, and bigotry.
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