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De Colores Means All of Us
Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century
Elizabeth Martínez
Pages: 266ISBN: 0-89608-583-X
Format: paper
Release Date: 1998-01-01
This book is also available in cloth
The unique Chicana voice of Elizabeth Martínez arises from more than thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women's liberation, and Latina/o empowerment. With sections on women's organization, struggles for ecomonic justice, and the Latina/o youth movement, De Colores Means All of Us will appeal to readers and activists seeking to organize for the future and build new movements for liberation.
Table of Contents
Introduction A Call for Rainbow Warriors
Part 1 Seeing More Than Black and White
1 A Word About the Great Terminology Question
2 Seeing More Than Black and White
3 That Old White (Male) Magic
4 Whose Chicano History Did You Learn?
5 Reinventing "America"
6 Follow Me Home, the Movie That Makes Magic With Pennies
Part 2 No Hay Fronteras
7 Immigrant-Bashing on the Rise 1990-94
8 For Whom the Taco Bell Tolls
9 It's a Terrorist War on Immigrants 1995-Present
Part 3 Fighting for Economic and Environmental Justice
10 "Levi's, Button Your Fly-Your Greed is Showing!"
11 Walking With Cesar
12 When People of Color are an Endangered Species
13 Weaving a Net That Works
Part 4 Racism and the Attack on Multiculturalism
14 Willie Horton's Gonna Get Your Alma Mater
15 Campus Racism
16 Brown David v. White Goliath
17 On Time in Mississippi
Part 5 Women Talk: No Taco Belles Here
18 In Pursuit of Latina Liberation
19 Chingon Politics Die Hard
20 Listen Up, Anglo Sisters
21 The Third Eye of Cherríe Moraga
22 Of Passion and Politics
Part 6 La Luch...
Elizabeth Martínez
Click here to view Elizabeth Martínez's full Author Page“Elizabeth Martínez’s work comprises one of the most important living histories of progressive activism in the contemporary era.… [Martínez is] inimitable … irrepressible … indefatigable.”—Angela Y. Davis
A Chicana activist, author, and educator, Elizabeth Martínez has published six books and many articles on social movement in the Americas . Her best-known work is 500 years of Chicano History in Pictures, a bilingual history that became the basis for the video she co-directed. Her collection of essays published by South End Press is entitled De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century. Other books include Letters from Mississippi and The Youngest Revolution: A Personal Report on Cuba.
After graduating from Swarthmore College , which awarded her an honorary doctorate in May 2000, she worked in the United Nations Secretariat as a researcher on colonialism in Africa , as an editor at Simon & Schuster; and as Books and Arts Editor of The Nation magazine. During the 1960s, she served fulltime in the Black civil rights movement with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the South and as a coordinator of its New York office. Later she joined the Chicano movement in New Mexico where she founded the bilingual movement newspaper El Grito del Norte (1968-1973) and co-founded the Chicano Communications Center , a barrio-based organizing and education project.
Since moving to the Bay Area in 1976, she has organized on Latino community issues, taught Women’s Studies part-time, conducted anti-racist training workshops, and worked with youth groups. She ran for governor of California on the Peace & Freedom Party ticket in 1982 and has received many awards from student, community, and academic organizations. In 1997, she founded the Institute for MultiRacial Justice, a resource center to help build alliances among peoples of color. Her daughter, Tessa, is an actress and co-founder of San Francisco’s Latina Theater Lab.