{"id":944,"date":"2019-11-14T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/?page_id=944"},"modified":"2019-12-13T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T20:50:00","slug":"vasquez","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/vasquez\/","title":{"rendered":"This Bridge Called My Back: Restoring the Voices of Women of Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This project examines the establishment of solidarity amongst women of color during the second-wave feminist movement. The unique experiences of women of color often went unnoticed as a result of the lack of representation they received in the media. Women of color were denied a space in which they could build community through their shared experiences. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This Bridge Called My Back,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> one of the first major anthologies featuring the work of women of color, was first published in 1981. This anthology seeks to restore the voices of women of color in a movement that continuously silenced them. As <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cherr\u00ede <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moraga, an editor of this anthology, notes in her introduction, \u201cwomen of color ask the political question: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">what about us<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">? Which really means: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">what about <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">all <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of us?<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d (xix).<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women of color felt excluded from the movement by white women and in response aimed to create a more inclusive community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Erin Vasquez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This project examines the establishment of solidarity amongst women of color during the second-wave feminist movement. The unique experiences of women of color often went unnoticed as a result of the lack of representation they received in the media. Women &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/vasquez\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-944","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1479,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/944\/revisions\/1479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}