De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century

by Weapon

Overview

A radical Latina perspective on race, liberation, and identity

Elizabeth Martínez’s unique Chicana voice has been formed through over thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women’s liberation, and Latina/o empowerment. In De Colores Means All of Us, Martínez presents a radical Latina perspective on race, liberation and identity. She describes the provocative ideas and new movements created by the rapidly expanding US Latina/o community as it confronts intensified exploitation and racism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786631176
Publisher:	Verso Books
Publication date:	07/25/2017
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Elizabeth Martínez is a Chicana feminist and a long-time community organizer, activist, author, and educator. Her best-known work is the unique bilingual volume 500 years of Chicano History in Pictures and the popular video based on it, which she co-directed.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the 2017 Edition Karma R. Chávez vii

Foreword Angela Y. Davis xii

Acknowledgments xvi

Introduction: "A Call for Rainbow Warriors" xvii

Part I Seeing More than Black and White

1 A Word About the Great Terminology Question 1

2 Seeing More Than Black and White 4

3 That Old White (Male) Magic 21

4 Whose Chicane History Did You Learn? 31

5 Reinventing "America": Call for a New National Identity 41

6 Follow Me Home, the Movie That Makes Magic with Pennies 49

Part II No Hay Fronteras: The Attack On Immigrant Rights

7 Immigrant-Bashing on the Rise 1990-94 56

8 For Whom the Taco Bell Tolls 66

9 ICs a Terrorist War on Immigrants 1995 Present 68

Part III Fighting for Economic and Environmental Justice

10 "Levi's Button Your Fly-Your Greed Is Showing!" 82

11 Walking with César 91

12 When People of Color Are an Endangered Species 100

13 Weaving a Net That Works 108

Part IV Racism and the Attack on Multiculturalism

14 Willie Horton's Gonna Get Your Alma Mater: The War on Multiculturalism 118

15 Campus Racism: Tip of an Iceberg 130

16 Brown David v. White Goliath: Racism at the University of California 142

17 On Time in Mississippi 153

Part V Woman Talk: No Taco Belles Here

18 In Pursuit of Latina Liberation 163

9 Chingón Politics Die Hard 172

20 Listen Up, Anglo Sisters 182

21 The Third Eye of Cherrie Moraga 190

22 Of Passion and Politics 194

Part VI La Lucha Continua: Youth in the Lead

23 Whatever Happened to the Chicane Movement? 198

24 To New Mexico with Love 204

25 Be Down with the Brown! 210

26 "They Really Were Willing to Die" 220

27 Raza Protest a Day of Lies and Hate 226

28 "Back in the Early 1990s…" 229

29 ¡Raza Si! Nationalism …? 239

30 Remember Something Ancient, Imagine Something New 248

Afterword 253

Index 255

Editorial Reviews

Elizabeth Martínez’s work comprises one of the most important living histories of progressive activism in the contemporary era … inimitable … irrepressible … indefatigable.”
—Angela Y. Davis

“Though published nearly twenty years ago, the new Verso reprint of De Colores Means All of Us contains many urgent messages for the current moment. Part history and part philosophy, De Colores Mean All of Us is a vital key to untangling the messy social structures of race, class, and gender in a specifically Borderlander US context.”
—Kevin Lentz, Latinx Spaces

From the Publisher