num_pages: 280
description: A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness features essays and poems by Cherre 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.Moraga 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 Alzheimers; pays poignant tribute to friends who passed away including the sculptor Marsha Gmez and the poets Alfred Arteaga Pat Parker and Audre Lorde; and offers a heartfelt essay about her personal and political relationship with Gloria Anzalda.Thirty years after the publication of Anzalda and Moragas collection This Bridge Called My Back a landmark of women-of-color feminism Moragas 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 Moragas 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.
language: English
title: A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings, 2000-2010
publisher: Duke University Press Books