{"product_id":"a-xicana-codex-of-changing-consciousness-writings-2000-2010-9780822349778","title":"A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings, 2000-2010","description":"\u003ci\u003eA Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness \u003c\/i\u003efeatures essays and poems by Cherr?e 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, \u003ci\u003ecomadre\u003c\/i\u003e, and lesbian lover looks back on the first ten years of the twenty-first century. She 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 Alzheimer's; pays poignant tribute to friends who passed away, including the sculptor Marsha G?mez and the poets Alfred Arteaga, Pat Parker, and Audre Lorde; and offers a heartfelt essay about her personal and political relationship with Gloria Anzald?a.\u003cp\u003eThirty years after the publication of Anzald?a and Moraga's collection \u003ci\u003eThis Bridge Called My Back\u003c\/i\u003e, a landmark of women-of-color feminism, Moraga's 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. \u003ci\u003eA Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness\u003c\/i\u003e reveals key transformations in Moraga's 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCherr?e L. Moraga is an award-winning playwright, poet, essayist, and activist. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eLoving in the War Years\u003c\/i\u003e and co-editor, with Gloria Anzald?a, of \u003ci\u003eThis Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color\u003c\/i\u003e. Moraga is a founding member of La RED Xicana Ind?gena, a network of Xicana activists committed to indigenous political education, spiritual practice, and grassroots organizing. She is an Artist-in-Residence in the Drama Department at Stanford University, where she also teaches in the Program in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50924658786578,"sku":"9780822349778","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2de040a1-7070-4067-a72d-a2ac95759cde.jpg?v=1738972614","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-xicana-codex-of-changing-consciousness-writings-2000-2010-9780822349778","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}