Updated and expanded edition of the foundational text of women of color feminism.u003cbru003eu003cbru003eOriginally released in 1981, This Bridge Called My Back is a testimony to women of color feminism as it emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Through personal essays, criticism, interviews, testimonials, poetry, and visual art, the collection explores, as coeditor Cherríe Moraga writes, u0093the complex confluence of identitiesu0097race, class, gender, and sexualityu0097systemic to women of color oppression and liberation.u0094u003cbru003eu003cbru003eReissued here, nearly thirty-five years after its inception, the fourth edition contains an extensive new introduction by Moraga, along with a previously unpublished statement by Gloria Anzaldúa. The new edition also includes visual artists whose work was produced during the same period as Bridge, including Betye Saar, Ana Mendieta, and Yolanda López, as well as current contributor biographies. Bridge continues to reflect an evolving definition of feminism, one that can effectively adapt to, and help inform an understanding of the changing economic and social conditions of women of color in the United States and throughout the world.u003cbru003eu003cbru003eu0093Immense is my admiration for the ongoing dialogue and discourse on feminism, Indigenous feminism, the defining discussions in women of color movements and the broader movement. I have loved this book for thirty years, and am so pleased we have returned with our stories, words, and attributes to the growing and resilient movement.u0094 u0097 Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe), Executive Director, Honor the Earthu003cbru003eu003cbru003ePraise for the Third Editionu003cbru003eu003cbru003eu0093This Bridge Called My Back u0085 dispels all doubt about the power of a single text to radically transform the terrain of our theory and practice. Twenty years after its publication, we can now see how it helped to untether the production of knowledge from its disciplinary anchorsu0097and not only in the field of womenu0092s studies. This Bridge has allowed us to define the promise of research on race, gender, class and sexuality as profoundly linked to collaboration and coalition-building. And perhaps most important, it has offered us strategies for transformative political practice that are as valid today as they were two decades ago.u0094 u0097 Angela Davis, University of California, Santa Cruzu003cbru003eu003cbru003eu0093This Bridge Called My Back u0085 has served as a significant rallying call for women of color for a generation, and this new edition keeps that call alive at a time when divisions prove ever more stubborn and dangerous. A much-cited text, its influence has been visible and broad both in academia and among activists. We owe much of the sound of our present voices to the brave scholars and feminists whose ideas and ideals crowd its pages.u0094 u0097 Shirley Geok-lin Lim, University of California, Santa Barbarau003cbru003eu003cbru003eu0093This book is a manifestou0097the 1981 declaration of a new politics u0091US Third World Feminism.u0092 No great de-colonial writer, from Fanon, Shaarawi, Blackhawk, or Sartre, to Mountain Wolf Woman, de Beauvoir, Saussure, or Newton could have alone proclaimed this u0091politic born of necessity.u0092 This politic denies no truths: its luminosities drive into and through our bodies. Writers and readers alike become shape-shifters, are invited to enter the shaman/witness state, to invoke power differently. u0091US Third World Feminismu0092 requires a re-peopling: the creation of planetary citizen-warriors. This book is a guide that directs citizenry shadowed in hate, terror, suffering, disconnection, and pain toward the light of social justice, gender and erotic liberation, peace, and revolutionary love. This Bridge u0085 transits our dreams, and brings them to the real.u0094 u0097 Chela Sandoval, University of California, Santa Barbarau003cbru003e