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jaclyn_youngblood's review
4.0
Interesting to read a snapshot from the 90s (and reflection on the 60s and 70s) in today's climate. A lot of interesting examples and narratives that I hadn't been exposed to before (probably not surprising). I found the author's writing quick and incisive and the collection-of-essays mode not difficult to follow. Would love to know how a HS teacher might feel about incorporating some of these essays (or if that is already common practice). A lot of useful analysis on youth organizing, too.
(Edit: okay, reading other people's reviews, seeing that teachers have been using it since it was first published. Cool!)
(Edit: okay, reading other people's reviews, seeing that teachers have been using it since it was first published. Cool!)
jacob_wren's review against another edition
5.0
Elizabeth Martínez writes:
In this spirit Cherríe Moraga remains “passionately committed to an art of resistance to domination by Anglo-America.” And what is her vision for the future? She says the words few people utter aloud: “If the Soviet Union could dissolve, why not the United States?” Why not, indeed? And why not a new confederacy of equal, mutually respectful cultures and peoples? “The road to our future is the road from our past.”
In this spirit Cherríe Moraga remains “passionately committed to an art of resistance to domination by Anglo-America.” And what is her vision for the future? She says the words few people utter aloud: “If the Soviet Union could dissolve, why not the United States?” Why not, indeed? And why not a new confederacy of equal, mutually respectful cultures and peoples? “The road to our future is the road from our past.”
jpfriday's review against another edition
4.0
“The basis for unity should be: who is actually doing the work? – with the understanding that everyone is needed.” “De Colores Means All of Us" brims with power and nuance despite being over twenty years old. Whether it's exposing ties between environmental racism and economic extortion, or detaching homophobia and patriarchy from Chicano nationalism, Martinez models the careful work of untangling America’s knot of overlapping oppressions. She writes: “Small rainbows of our own making are everywhere.” The work ahead of us - on every level, every day - is to refract these rainbows into expansive, beautiful worlds.
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