Section 1 Still Trembles Our Rage in the Face of Racism There Is War: Some Losses Can't Be Counted

What The Gypsy Said To Her Children

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Poem For The Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, An Intelligent, Well-Read Person, Could Believe In The War Between Races

Lorna Dee Cervantes

Punto Final

Shirley Hill Witt

We Exist

Janice Gould

Desert Run

Mitsuye Yamada

Generations of Women

Janice Mirikitani

Something About the Subject Makes It Hard to Name

Gloria Yamato

Racism and Women's Studies

Barbara Smith

The Costs of Exclusionary Practices in Women's Studies

Maxine Baca Zinn

Lynn Weber Cannon

Elizabeth Higginbotham

Bonnie Thornton Dill

Inclusion Without Influence: The Continuing Tokenism of Women of Color

Lynet Uttal

Hablando cara a cara/Speaking Face to Face: An Exploration of Ethnocentric Racism

Maria Lugones

Feminism and Racism: A Report on the 1981 National Women's Studies Association Conference

Chela Sandoval

Section 2 Denial and Betrayal

Suicide Note

Janice Mirikitani

Postscript

Canela Jaramillo

A Woman Cutting Celery

Sandra Cisneros

Notes from a Fragmented Daughter

Elena Tajima Creef

Light Skinned-ded Naps

Kristal Brent Zook

The Visit Home

Rosemary Cho Leyson

Turtle Gal

Beth Brant

Masks of Woman

Mitsuye Yamada

Corrosion

Gisele Fong

La Dulce Culpa

Cherrie Moraga

Sessions

Nora Cobb

On Passing

Laura Munter-Orabona

Notes From A Chicana ``Coed''

Bernice Zamora

Corazon de una anciana

Edna Escamill

Between Ourselves

Audre Lorde

En rapport, In Opposition: Cobrando cuentas a las nuestras

Gloria Anzaldua

Section 3 (De)Colonized Selves: Finding Hope Through Horror Turning the Pain Around: Strategies for Growth

I Give You Back

Joy Harjo

To Omoni, In Korea

Anne Mi Ok Bruining

A Letter to My Daughter

Siu Wai Anderson

Journeys of the Mind

Anne Waters

You're Short, Besides!

Sucheng Chan

In Magazines (I Found Specimens of the Beautiful)

Ekua Omosupe

Notes on Oppression and Violence

Aleticia Tijerina

Where Is The Love?

June Jordan

Section 4 In Silence, Giving Tongue The Transformation of Silence Into (An) other Alphabet

Periquita

Carmen Morones

Refugee Ship

Lorna Dee Cervantes

Her Rites of Passage

Lynda Marin

The Eskimos

Barbara Ruth

Palabra de Mujer

Elba Rosario Sanchez

Elena

Pat Mora

Unnatural Speech

Pat Mora

The Three Tongues

Catalina Rios

For Alva Benson, And For Those Who Have Learned To Speak

Joy Harjo

Prisons of Silence

Janice Mirikitani

I Lost It at the Movies

Jewelle Gomez

Talking Back

bell hooks

The Girl Who Wouldn't Sing

Kit Yuen Quan

Section 5 Political Arts, Subversive Acts

Madness Disguises Sanity

Opal Palmer Adisa

Not Editable

Chrystos

A Julia de Burgos

Julia de Burgos

Grace

Carmen Morones

Commitment from the Mirror-Writing Box

Trinh T. Minh-ha

Judy Baca: Our People Are The Internal Exiles

Diane Neumair

Object Into Subject: Some Thoughts On the Work Of Black Women Artists

Michelle Cliff

``Nopalitos'': The Making of Fiction

Helena Maria Viramontes

Section 6 If You Would Be My Ally In Alliance, In Solidarity

For the white person who wants to know how to be my firend

Pat Parker

Some Like Indians Endure

Paula Gunn Allen

Girlfriends

Andrea R. Canaan

Developing Unity Among Women of Color: Crossing the Barriers of Internalized Racism and Cross-Racial Hostility

Virginia R. Harris

Trinity A. Ordona

Nods That Silence

Lynet Uttal

I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities

Audre Lorde

Recognizing, Accepting and Celebrating Our Differences

Papusa Molina

Section 7 ``Doing'' Theory in Other Modes of Consciousness

The Race for Theory

Barbara Christian

The Politics of Poetics: Or, What Am I, A Critic, Doing in This Text Anyhow?

Tey Diana Rebolledo

The Theoretical Subjects (s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American Feminism

Norma Alarcon

Definition of Womanist

Alice Walker

Not You/Like You: Post-Colonial Women and the Interlocking Questions of Identity and Difference

Trinh T. Minh-ha

Legal Alien

Pat Mora

La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness

Gloria Anzaldua

Playfulness, ``World''-Travelling, and Loving Perception