Description
Elizabeth Martinez's unique Chicana voice arises from 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, Martinez presents a radical Latina perspective on race, liberation, and identity. In these essays, Martinez describes the provocative ideas and new movements created by the rapidly expanding U.S. Latina/o community as it confronts intensified exploitation and racism. With sections on women's organizing, struggles for economic justice and immigrant rights, and the Latina/o youth movement, this book will appeal to readers and activists seeking to organize for the future and build new movements for social change. With a foreword from Angela Y. Davis.
A radical Latina perspective on race, liberation, and identity
About the Author
A Chicana activist now based in San Francisco, Elizabeth Martinez has published six books on social movements in the United States and Latin America. 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. She has taught Women's and Ethnic Studies, does anti-racist work with community and youth groups, and writes for Z and other magazines.
Reviews
Elizabeth Martinez's work comprises one of themost important living histories of progressive activism in the contemporaryera. . . . [Martinez is] inimitable. . .irrepressible. . .indefatigable. -- Angela Y. Davis
Please do yourself a favor and read this essay collection by Elizabeth Martinez! Share it with your friends, students, neighbors. Free yourself from the onslaught of misinformation and ignorance regarding racism in the United States and Latino politics. It is an up-to-date news flash on what is going on regarding Mexicans on both sides of the border. 'Betita' (to those of us who know her, love her, and continue to learn from her) is a veteran activist and Chicana pundit of the highest order. -- Ana Castillo, author, Massacre of the Dreamers
Elizabeth Martinez has played a unique and extraordinary role as chronicler of Chicana-Chicano history, and De Colores beautifully captures her passion, her intelligence, her powerful commitment to universal human values. I am very happy this volume exists, and hope it will be widely read. -- Howard Zinn, author, A People's History of the United States
This is one of the most important books to be published as we prepare to continue our struggle for a multiracial democracy in the twenty-first century. . . . Elizabeth (Betita) Martinez embodies the courage and tenacity exemplified by Latina activists, and women of color generally, who have been the backbone of our movements for social justice. -- Prof. Carlos Munoz, Jr., Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley; author, Youth, Identity, Power:The Chicano Movement
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 *
Book Information
ISBN 9781786631176
Author Elizabeth Sutherland Martinez
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 362g
Dimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 19mm
A radical Latina perspective on race, liberation, and identity
About the Author
A Chicana activist now based in San Francisco, Elizabeth Martinez has published six books on social movements in the United States and Latin America. 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. She has taught Women's and Ethnic Studies, does anti-racist work with community and youth groups, and writes for Z and other magazines.
Reviews
Elizabeth Martinez's work comprises one of themost important living histories of progressive activism in the contemporaryera. . . . [Martinez is] inimitable. . .irrepressible. . .indefatigable. -- Angela Y. Davis
Please do yourself a favor and read this essay collection by Elizabeth Martinez! Share it with your friends, students, neighbors. Free yourself from the onslaught of misinformation and ignorance regarding racism in the United States and Latino politics. It is an up-to-date news flash on what is going on regarding Mexicans on both sides of the border. 'Betita' (to those of us who know her, love her, and continue to learn from her) is a veteran activist and Chicana pundit of the highest order. -- Ana Castillo, author, Massacre of the Dreamers
Elizabeth Martinez has played a unique and extraordinary role as chronicler of Chicana-Chicano history, and De Colores beautifully captures her passion, her intelligence, her powerful commitment to universal human values. I am very happy this volume exists, and hope it will be widely read. -- Howard Zinn, author, A People's History of the United States
This is one of the most important books to be published as we prepare to continue our struggle for a multiracial democracy in the twenty-first century. . . . Elizabeth (Betita) Martinez embodies the courage and tenacity exemplified by Latina activists, and women of color generally, who have been the backbone of our movements for social justice. -- Prof. Carlos Munoz, Jr., Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley; author, Youth, Identity, Power:The Chicano Movement
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 *
Book Information
ISBN 9781786631176
Author Elizabeth Sutherland Martinez
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 362g
Dimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 19mm
