This is an overall compelling, timely, and on many fronts, prophetic read. Moraga's ideas have matured and become more profound with the passage of time I look forward to reading more of her eloquent resistance and wisdom in the coming years. Nostalgia, evolving consciousness, and the concept of (w)riting -writing to remember / making rite to remember / having the right to remember-lyrically permeate the pages of this book. It is a posture that Moraga strikes superbly, and the result is a strong articulation of resistance and, yes, hope, from one of the most important queer Chicana intellectuals of our time. he sense of trying to hang on to, to remember, something vanishing is palpable in this book. But there is a tender quality of reflection here, too, even nostalgia, that strikes a new note. Moraga's prose is characteristically trenchant and her stance unapologetic as ever.
It is a major statement from one of our most important public intellectuals. A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness 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.
Yet aspects of her thinking have changed over time. Thirty years after the publication of Anzaldua and Moraga's collection This Bridge Called My Back, 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. 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 Gomez and the poets Alfred Arteaga, Pat Parker, and Audre Lorde and offers a heartfelt essay about her personal and political relationship with Gloria Anzaldua. 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. 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, one of the most influential figures in Chicana/o, feminist, queer, and indigenous activism and scholarship. A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness features essays and poems by Cherrie L.
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