"A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness "features essays and
poems by Cherrie L. Moraga, one of the most influential figures in
Chicana/o, feminist, queer, and indigenous activism and
scholarship. Combining moving personal stories with trenchant
political and cultural critique, the writer, activist, teacher,
dramatist, mother, daughter, "comadre," and lesbian lover looks
back on the first ten years of the twenty-first century. She
considers decade-defining public events such as 9/11 and the
campaign and election of Barack Obama, and she explores
socioeconomic, cultural, and political phenomena closer to home,
sharing her fears about raising her son amid increasing urban
violence and the many forms of dehumanization faced by young men of
color. Moraga describes her deepening grief as she loses her mother
to Alzheimer's; pays poignant tribute to friends who passed away,
including the sculptor Marsha Gomez and the poets Alfred Arteaga,
Pat Parker, and Audre Lorde; and offers a heartfelt essay about her
personal and political relationship with Gloria Anzaldua.
Thirty years after the publication of Anzaldua and Moraga's
collection "This Bridge Called My Back," a landmark of
women-of-color feminism, Moraga's literary and political praxis
remains motivated by and intertwined with indigenous spirituality
and her identity as Chicana lesbian. Yet aspects of her thinking
have changed over time. "A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness"
reveals key transformations in Moraga's thought; the breadth,
rigor, and philosophical depth of her work; her views on
contemporary debates about citizenship, immigration, and gay
marriage; and her deepening involvement in transnational feminist
and indigenous activism. It is a major statement from one of our
most important public intellectuals.
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