Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray!

Feminist Visions for a Just World

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"Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray! is an indispensable guide to the progressive politics of race, class, and gender in the new millennium from leading feminist writers of our time. Collecting essential writings of the last two decades right through the events of September 2001, the anthology provides a definitive reference work for academics and activists committed to deep and unflinching inquiry into the mechanisms of global justice in the post-Cold War world. This timely volume offers uncompromising examinations of the exploitation of Third World women under NAFTA; the real costs of the Colombian drug war; the inner dynamics of white supremacy; Zionism and anti-Semitism; ecological racism; indigenous sovereignty struggles in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico; and much more. Contributors include Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde, Edwidge Danticat, Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua, Angela Y. Davis, Winona LaDuke, and vital, new voices from an emerging activist culture. Book jacket."--Jacket

contents:
First writing since / Suheir Hammad
The light of history : reflections on Durban and September 11th / Linda Burnham
I've seen this war before : to the House of Representatives, 14 September 2001 / Barbara Lee
Phantom towers : feminist reflections on the battle between global capitalism and fundamentalist terrorism / Rosalind P. Petchesky
The color of violence against women / Angela Y. Davis
Mother vs. murder / Debbie Nathan
Masked racism : reflections on the prison industrial complex / Angela Y. Davis
Racism in U.S. welfare policy : a human rights issue / Linda Burnham
Whose "choice"? : "flexible" women workers in the tomato food chain / Deborah Barndt
A xicanadyke codex of changing consciousness / Cherrie L. Moraga
From the first intifada to the second intifada : notes from an American Jew / Lisa Albrecht
Lurching through these frightening days / Anonymous
In the belly of the beast : Puertorriqueñas challenging colonialism / El Comite de Mujeres Puertorriqueñas
Hawai'i / Haunani-Kay Trask
Self-determination for Pacific island women : the case of Hawai'i / Haunani-Kay Trask
Cincinnati, 1943 / Mitsuye Yamada
The real southern rebels / Denise Giardina
Akwesasne : Mohawk mother's milk and PCBs / Winona LaDuke
Taking the river back / Mary Moran
Traveling through big mountain / Judith McDaniel
Still "a difficult journey up the mountain"? : Palestinian women's national versus gender politics 1919-2002 / Orayb Aref Najjar
Impasse / Mary TallMountain
Korea / Merle Woo
Josephine and me : teaching about racism in women's studies / Merle Woo
Ah chenk / Nellie Wong
History lesson / Janice Gould
Shame on! / Chrystos
On being white and other lies : a history of racism in the United States / Mab Segrest
Who is an Indian? : the Minnesota Chippewa tribe struggles for land and sovereignty / Marcie McIntire
What do you want to be called? / Suzan Shown Harjo
Letter to Hassan / Joanna Kadi
Parasites and pioneers : antisemitism in white supremacist America / Matthew Nemiroff Lyons
Multiplicity / Edén Torres
The cult of the "perfect" language : censorship by class, gender, and race / Mitsuye Yamada
The secret, 1893 / Haunani-Kay Trask
The homeland, Aztlán / Gloria Anzaldúa
Three movements in A minor / Grace Poore
Crossing the bridges of pain : the racial factors of the Columbian drug war / Berta I. Perea
Multiracial feminism / Becky Thompson
Strategies from the field : organizing as an Asian American feminist / Juliana Pegues
La mujer luchando, el mundo transformando! : Mexican immigrant women workers / Miriam Ching Yoon Louie
Small axe at the crossroads : a reflection on African sexualities and human rights / Kagendo Murungi
Imagine / Nellie Wong
Inside-out and upside down : an interview with Anne Braden / June Rostan
Justice journals : Palestine / Sharon Jaffe
Oberlin College commencement address, May 29, 1989 / Audre Lorde
Speaking (about) silence / Joanna Kadi
Stolen memory / Sheri Scott
Bluebirdbluebirdthrumywindow / Sonia Sanchez
Emergency poem / Nellie Wong
Women like us / Edwidge Danticat
Cornelia's mother / Angela Bowen
The gift / Sharon Day
Recitatif, Toni Morrison
Can a tiger climb trees? / Mi Ok Song Bruining
Omoni in Korea : finding my birth mother / Mi Ok Song Bruining
Remembering this bridge, remembering ourselves / M. Jacqui Alexander
Grandmothers of a new world / Beth Brant
Jellybeans / Merle Woo
Nitassinan : the hunter and the peasant / Winona LaDuke
Caretakers of the water / Sharon Day
The dying road to a nation : a prayer for un Pueblo / Cherríe L. Moraga
The lessons of Candomblé, the lessons of life / Valdina Pinto