De colores means all of us : Latina views for a multi-colored century / Elizabeth Martínez ; foreword by Angela Davis ; new introduction by Karma R. Chávez.
"First published by South End Press 1998"--Title page verso.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part I. Seeing More than Black and White. A Word About the Great Terminology Question ; Seeing More Than Black and White ; That Old White (Male) Magic ; Whose Chicano History Did You Learn? ; Reinventing "America": Call for a New National Identity ; Follow Me Home, the Movie That Makes Magic with Pennies -- Part II: No Hay Fronteras: The Attack On Immigrant Rights. Immigrant-Bashing on the Rise 1990-94 ; For Whom the Taco Bell Tolls ; It's a Terrorist War on Immigrants 1995-Present -- Part III. Fighting for Economic and Environmental Justice. "Levi's Button Your Fly-Your Greed Is Showing!" ; Walking with César ; When People of Color Are an Endangered Species ; Weaving a Net That Works -- Part IV. Racism and the Attack on Multiculturalism. Willie Horton's Gonna Get Your Alma Mater: The War on Multiculturalism ; Campus Racism: Tip of an Iceberg ; Brown David v. White Goliath: Racism at the University of California ; On Time in Mississippi -- Part V. Woman Talk: No Taco Belles Here. In Pursuit of Latina Liberation ; Chingón Politics Die Hard ; Listen Up, Anglo Sisters ; The Third Eye of Cherríe Moraga ; Of Passion and Politics -- Part VI. La Lucha Continua: Youth in the Lead. Whatever Happened to the Chicano Movement? ; To New Mexico with Love ; Be Down with the Brown! ; "They Really Were Willing to Die" ; Raza Protest a Day of Lies and Hate ; "Back in the Early 1990s..." ; ˇRaza Si! Nationalism ...? ; Remember Something Ancient, Imagine Something New.
Summary
This book presents a radical Latina perspective on race, liberation and identity. The author describes the provocative ideas and new movements created by the rapidly expanding US Latina/o community as it confronts intensified exploitation and racism. --Publisher's description.
