Latinas: Struggles & Protests in 21st Century USA is a timely collection of poetry and prose reflecting on lived experiences as women as well as by class, race, ethnicity, and immigration status. The anthology's 40 contributors are poets, activists, educators, artists, and journalists engaged in a variety of activities from workplace organizing to university teaching. They range in age from their twenties to their sixties and live in communities across the US. Together their writings open a window into Latina perspectives on contemporary socio-economic-political and cultural issues, activism, and imaginings for a more humane world.
The anthology includes a mix of genres: poems, personal narratives, blog posts, letters, scholarly essays, artwork, mission statements, excerpts from plays, lyrics, and herstories, looking across time, generational and geographic boundaries. Each piece is unique. They illustrate both diversity and unity, and are most closely aligned with an understanding of feminism as a movement to end sexist oppression--both its institutional and individual manifestations.
"This anthology is especially urgent in a moment marked by the "silence breakers" . . . and the simultaneous silencing of women of color within these narratives. Latinas, in particular, have much to teach us as we face escalated attacks on Latinx immigrants, the U.S.-fueled crisis in Puerto Rico, and the misogyny that guides legislation against health care...." Dr. Deborah Paredez, Co-Director and Co-Founder of CantoMundo, Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the Writing Program at Columbia University, and author of This Side of Skin and Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory.
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The anthology includes a mix of genres: poems, personal narratives, blog posts, letters, scholarly essays, artwork, mission statements, excerpts from plays, lyrics, and herstories, looking across time, generational and geographic boundaries. Each piece is unique. They illustrate both diversity and unity, and are most closely aligned with an understanding of feminism as a movement to end sexist oppression--both its institutional and individual manifestations.
"This anthology is especially urgent in a moment marked by the "silence breakers" . . . and the simultaneous silencing of women of color within these narratives. Latinas, in particular, have much to teach us as we face escalated attacks on Latinx immigrants, the U.S.-fueled crisis in Puerto Rico, and the misogyny that guides legislation against health care...." Dr. Deborah Paredez, Co-Director and Co-Founder of CantoMundo, Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the Writing Program at Columbia University, and author of This Side of Skin and Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory.
Latinas: Struggles & Protests in 21st Century USA
Latinas: Struggles & Protests in 21st Century USA is a timely collection of poetry and prose reflecting on lived experiences as women as well as by class, race, ethnicity, and immigration status. The anthology's 40 contributors are poets, activists, educators, artists, and journalists engaged in a variety of activities from workplace organizing to university teaching. They range in age from their twenties to their sixties and live in communities across the US. Together their writings open a window into Latina perspectives on contemporary socio-economic-political and cultural issues, activism, and imaginings for a more humane world.
The anthology includes a mix of genres: poems, personal narratives, blog posts, letters, scholarly essays, artwork, mission statements, excerpts from plays, lyrics, and herstories, looking across time, generational and geographic boundaries. Each piece is unique. They illustrate both diversity and unity, and are most closely aligned with an understanding of feminism as a movement to end sexist oppression--both its institutional and individual manifestations.
"This anthology is especially urgent in a moment marked by the "silence breakers" . . . and the simultaneous silencing of women of color within these narratives. Latinas, in particular, have much to teach us as we face escalated attacks on Latinx immigrants, the U.S.-fueled crisis in Puerto Rico, and the misogyny that guides legislation against health care...." Dr. Deborah Paredez, Co-Director and Co-Founder of CantoMundo, Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the Writing Program at Columbia University, and author of This Side of Skin and Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory.
The anthology includes a mix of genres: poems, personal narratives, blog posts, letters, scholarly essays, artwork, mission statements, excerpts from plays, lyrics, and herstories, looking across time, generational and geographic boundaries. Each piece is unique. They illustrate both diversity and unity, and are most closely aligned with an understanding of feminism as a movement to end sexist oppression--both its institutional and individual manifestations.
"This anthology is especially urgent in a moment marked by the "silence breakers" . . . and the simultaneous silencing of women of color within these narratives. Latinas, in particular, have much to teach us as we face escalated attacks on Latinx immigrants, the U.S.-fueled crisis in Puerto Rico, and the misogyny that guides legislation against health care...." Dr. Deborah Paredez, Co-Director and Co-Founder of CantoMundo, Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the Writing Program at Columbia University, and author of This Side of Skin and Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory.
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BN ID: | 2940161426371 |
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Publisher: | Red Sugarcane Press, Inc. |
Publication date: | 05/13/2019 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
File size: | 5 MB |
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