Making face, making soul = Haciendo caras : creative and critical perspectives by feminists of color / edited by Gloria Anzaldúa.

Includes bibliographical references.

Section 1: Still Trembles Our Rage in the Face of Racism -- What the gypsy said to her children / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Poem for the young white man who asked me how I, an intelligent, well-read person, could believe in the war between races / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Punto final / Shirley Hill Witt -- We exist / Janice Gould -- Desert run / Mitsuye Yamada -- Generations of women / Janice Mirikitani -- Something about the subject makes it hard to name / Gloria Yamato -- Racism and women's studies / Barbara Smith -- The costs of exclusionary practices in women's studies / Maxine Baca Zinn, Lynn Weber Cannon, Elizabeth Higginbotham, Bonnie Thornton Dill -- Inclusion without influence : the continuing tokenism of women of color / Lynet Uttal -- Hablando cara a cara/Speaking face to face : an exploration of ethnocentric racism / María Lugones -- Feminism and racism : a report on the 1981 National Women's Studies Association Conference / Chela Sandoval -- Section 2: Denial and Betrayal -- Suicide note / Janice Mirikitani -- Postscript / Canéla Jaramillo -- A woman cutting celery / Sandra Cisneros -- Notes from a fragmented daughter / Elena Tajima Creef -- Light skinned-ded naps / Kristal Brent Zook -- The visit home / Rosemary Cho Leyson -- Turtle gal / Beth Brant -- Masks of woman / Mitsuye Yamada -- Corrosion / Gisele Fong -- La dulce culpa / Cherríe Moraga -- Sessions / Nora Cobb -- On passing / Laura Munter-Orabona -- Notes from a Chicana "coed" / Bernice Zamora -- Corazón de una anciana / Edna Escamill -- Between ourselves / Audre Lorde -- En rapport, in opposition : cobrando cuentas a las nuestras / Gloria Anzaldúa -- Section 3: (De)colonized Selves : Finding Hope Through Horror -- I give you back / Joy Harjo -- To Omoni, in Korea / Anne Mi Ok Bruining -- A letter to my daughter / Siu Wai Anderson -- Journeys of the mind / Anne Waters -- You're short, besides! / Sucheng Chan -- In magazines (I found specimens of the beautiful) / Ekua Osmosupe -- Notes on oppression and violence / Aletícia Tijerina -- Where is the love? / June Jordan -- Section 4: In Silence, Giving Tongue -- Periquita / Carmen Morones -- Refugee ship / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Her rites of passage / Lynda Marín -- The Eskimos / Barbara Ruth -- Palabra de mujer / Elba Rosario Sánchez -- Elena ; Unnatural speech / Pat Mora -- The three tongues / Catalina Ríos -- For Alva Benson, and for those who have learned to speak / Joy Harjo -- Prisons of silence / Janice Mirikitani -- I lost it at the movies / Jewelle Gomez -- Talking back / bell hooks -- The girl who wouldn't sing / Kit Yuen Quan -- Section 5: Political Arts, Subversive Acts -- Madness disguises sanity / Opal Palmer Adisa -- Not editable / Chrystos -- A Julia de Burgos / Julia de Burgos -- Grace / Carmen Morones -- Commitment from the mirror-writing box / Trinh T. Minh-ha -- Judy Baca : our people are the internal exiles / Diane Neumaier -- Object into subject : some thoughts on the work of black women artists / Michelle Cliff -- "Nopalitos" : the making of fiction / Helena María Viramontes -- Section 6: If You Would Be My Ally -- For the white person who wants to know how to be my friend / Pat Parker -- Some like Indians endure / Paula Gunn Allen -- Girlfriends / Andrea R. Canaan -- Developing unity among women of color : crossing the barriers of internalized racism and cross-racial hostility / Virginia R. Harris, Trinity A. Ordoña -- Nods that silence / Lynet Uttal -- I am your sister : black women organizing across sexualities / Audre Lorde -- Recognizing, accepting and celebrating our differences / Papusa Molina -- Section 7: "Doing" Theory in Other Modes of Consciousness -- The race for theory / Barbara Christian -- The politics of poetics : or, what am I, a critic, doing in this text anyhow? / Tey Diana Rebolledo -- The theoretical subject(s) of This bridge called my back and Anglo-American feminism / Norma Alarcón -- Definition of womanist / Alice Walker -- Not you/like you : post-colonial women and the interlocking questions of identity and difference / Trinh T. Minh-ha -- Legal alien / Pat Mora -- La conciencia de la mestiza : towards a new consciousness / Gloria Anzaldúa -- Playfulness, "world"-travelling, and loving perception / María Lugones.