Anzaldúa, Gloria C., and Analouise Keating, eds. This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Vision for Transformation. New York: Routledge, 2002. 608 pp.

by Sherrow O. Pinder

Within the socioeconomic, political, and cultural practices of the United States and even beyond its borders, the ongoing experiences of women of color are like stages upon which the continuous dramas of marginality are enacted. The change of scene from marginality to centrality for non-white women is too leisurely, and thus their plights have continued to be calamitous. It is in this spirit that This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Vision for Transformation, edited by Gloria C. Anzaldúa and Analouise Keating, is written. Each essay, story, poem, letter, e-mail conversation, and art work, in a unique way, transforms the marginality of women of color into centrality and gives us, to use the words of Nada Ella, "hope and conviction" (224).