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Cherríe Moraga, the Glossary

Cherríe Moraga (born September 25, 1952) is a Xicana feminist, writer, activist, poet, essayist, and playwright.^[1]

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Chicana feminists

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Albuquerque, also known as ABQ, Burque, and the Duke City, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico.

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American Book Awards

The American Book Award is an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement".

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American literature in Spanish

American literature in Spanish in the United States dates back as 1610 when the Spanish explorer Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá published his epic poem Historia de Nuevo México (History of New Mexico).

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Ana Castillo (born June 15, 1953) is a Chicana novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist, editor, playwright, translator and independent scholar. Cherríe Moraga and ana Castillo are American feminist writers, Chicana feminists and Lambda Literary Award winners.

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Arizona State University

Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area.

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Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde (born Audrey Geraldine Lorde; February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992) was an American writer, professor, philosopher, intersectional feminist, poet and civil rights activist. Cherríe Moraga and Audre Lorde are American Book Award winners, American feminist writers, American lesbian writers, lesbian academics and lesbian feminists.

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Barbara Smith

Barbara Smith (born November 16, 1946) is an American lesbian feminist and socialist who has played a significant role in Black feminism in the United States. Cherríe Moraga and Barbara Smith are American lesbian writers, Lambda Literary Award winners and lesbian feminists.

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Before Columbus Foundation

The Before Columbus Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 1976 by Ishmael Reed, "dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of contemporary American multicultural literature".

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Brudner Prize

The James Robert Brudner Memorial Prize and Lecture celebrates lifetime accomplishment and scholarly contributions in the field of LGBT Studies.

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Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism

Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism is a 1978 anthology about socialist feminism edited by Zillah R. Eisenstein.

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Chicana feminism

Chicana feminism is a sociopolitical movement, theory, and praxis that scrutinizes the historical, cultural, spiritual, educational, and economic intersections impacting Chicanas and the Chicana/o community in the United States.

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Circle in the Dirt

Circle in the Dirt: El Pueblo de East Palo Alto is a 1995 play by Cherríe Moraga.

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CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies

CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies (formerly known as Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies or CLAGS) was founded in 1991 by professor Martin Duberman as the first university-based research center in the United States dedicated to the study of historical, cultural, and political issues of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals and communities.

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Class discrimination

Class discrimination, also known as classism, is prejudice or discrimination on the basis of social class.

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Coming out

Coming out of the closet, often shortened to coming out, is a metaphor used to describe LGBT people's self-disclosure of their sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity.

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Critics' Circle Theatre Award

The Critics' Circle Theatre Awards, known as the Drama Theatre Awards until 1990, are British theatrical awards presented annually for the closing year's theatrical achievements.

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Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.

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Esto no tiene nombre (magazine)

Esto no tiene nombre (Spanish: "This has no name") was a Latina lesbian magazine published 1991-1994, which was succeeded by Conmoción 1995-1996.

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Feminist epistemology

Feminist epistemology is an examination of epistemology from a feminist standpoint.

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Firebrand Books

Firebrand Books is a publishing house established in 1984 by Nancy K. Bereano, a lesbian and feminist activist, in Ithaca, NY.

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Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (September 26, 1942 – May 15, 2004) was an American scholar of Chicana feminism, cultural theory, and queer theory. Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa are American Book Award winners, American academics of Mexican descent, American anthologists, American lesbian writers, LGBT Hispanic and Latino American people, lesbian academics and lesbian feminists.

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Immaculate Heart College

Immaculate Heart College (1906–1981) was a private, Catholic college located in Los Angeles, California.

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Ithaca, New York

Ithaca is a city in and the county seat of Tompkins County, New York, United States.

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John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (officially known as the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and commonly referred to as the Kennedy Center) is the United States National Cultural Center, located on the eastern bank of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. It was named in 1964 as a memorial to assassinated President John F.

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Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press

Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press was an activist feminist press, closely related to the National Black Feminist Organization (NBFO), that was started in 1980 by Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, poet Audre Lorde.

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Lesbian feminism

"Names must not be purely numeric...they should have semantic value so that they can be more easily distinguished from each other by human editors." Do not use ":1", ":3", ":5", etc., as ref names.--> Lesbian feminism is a cultural movement and critical perspective that encourages women to focus their efforts, attentions, relationships, and activities towards their fellow women rather than men, and often advocates lesbianism as the logical result of feminism. Cherríe Moraga and lesbian feminism are lesbian feminists.

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List of Mexican-American writers

The following is a list of Mexican-American writers. Cherríe Moraga and list of Mexican-American writers are American writers of Mexican descent.

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List of poets portraying sexual relations between women

This is a list of poets portraying sexual relations between women, who may include both lesbians and other WSW.

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List of women writers

* List of women writers (A–L).

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Los Angeles County, California

Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles (Condado de Los Ángeles), and sometimes abbreviated as L.A. County, is the most populous county in the United States, with 9,861,224 residents estimated in 2022.

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Master's degree

A master's degree (from Latin) is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

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National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.

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Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir

Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir is a 2019 book by Cherríe Moraga.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Norma Alarcón

Norma Alarcón (born November 30, 1943) is a Chicana author and publisher in the United States. Cherríe Moraga and Norma Alarcón are American academics of Mexican descent, American writers of Mexican descent and Chicana feminists.

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Persephone Press

Persephone Press was a publishing company and communications network run by a lesbian-feminist collective in Watertown, Massachusetts.

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Person of color

The term "person of color" (people of color or persons of color; abbreviated POC) is primarily used to describe any person who is not considered "white".

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Play (theatre)

A play is a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading.

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Postcolonial feminism

Postcolonial feminism is a form of feminism that developed as a response to feminism focusing solely on the experiences of women in Western cultures and former colonies.

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Racism

Racism is discrimination and prejudice against people based on their race or ethnicity.

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Radical feminism

Radical feminism is a perspective within feminism that calls for a radical re-ordering of society in which male supremacy is eliminated in all social and economic contexts, while recognizing that women's experiences are also affected by other social divisions such as in race, class, and sexual orientation.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherríe_Moraga

Also known as Cherríe L. Moraga, Cherríe Lawrence Moraga.

, United States, United States Artists, University of California, Santa Barbara, Watsonville (play), West End Press.

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