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In over thirty years since This Bridge Called My Back was first published, Cherríe Moraga has continuously reevaluated her imaginary of solidarity, taking into account socio-historical changes and the mutability of her own political beliefs. Moraga’s commitment to self-reflexivity, revision, social justice, and activist writing has meant that her contributions to This Bridge remain prescient for feminist of color theory into the new millennium. Here, I read Moraga’s prefaces, forewords, and introductions to the groundbreaking anthology—including the 1988 Spanish language edition Esta puente, mi espalda: voces de mujeres tercermundistas en los estados unidos edited by Moraga and Ana Castillo (1988), and the 1981, 1983, and 2002 English language editions coedited by Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa—as a conceptual map for understanding how she has theorized solidarity and women of color activism in the United States during more than three decades, and as a lens for thinking about ongoing transformations in feminist of color theory. I trace Moraga’s imaginary of solidarity from 1981 to 2002, arguing that her perspective regarding the possibility of alliances between women of color was initially US-centric, eventually becoming increasingly hemispheric, and ultimately more global.
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Esparza, A. (2014). Chapter 6 Cherríe Moraga’s Changing Consciousness of Solidarity. In: Hernández, E.D., Gibson, E.R.y. (eds) The Un/Making of Latina/o Citizenship. Literatures of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137431080_7
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