Massacre of the Dreamers : Essays on Xicanisma. 20th Anniversary Updated Edition.

__Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights__ This new edition of an immensely influential book gives voice to Mexic Amerindian women silenced for hundreds of years by the dual censorship of being female and indigenous. Castillo replaced the term "Chicana feminism" with "Xicanisma" to include mestiza women on both sides of the border. In history, myth, interviews, and ethnography Castillo revisits her reflections on Chicana activism, spiritual practices, sexual attitudes, artistic ideology, labor struggles, and education-related battles. Her book remains a compelling document, enhanced here with a new afterword that reexamines the significance of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The "I" in these critical essays by novelist, poet, scholar, and activist/curandera Ana Castillo is that of the Mexic-Amerindian woman living in the United States. The essays are addressed to everyone interested in the roots of the colonized woman's reality. Castillo introduces the term Xicanisma in a passionate call for a politically active, socially committed Chicana feminism. In "A Countryless Woman," Castillo outlines the experience of the brown woman in a racist society that recognizes race relations mostly as a black and white dilemma. Essays on the Watsonville strike, the early Chicano movement, and the roots of machismo illustrate the extent to which women still struggle against male dominance. Other essays suggest strategies for opposing the suppression of women's spirituality and sexuality by institutionalized religion and the state. These challenging essays will be a provocative guide for those who envision a new future for women as we face a new century.

Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights
This new edition of an immensely influential book gives voice to Mexic Amerindian women silenced for hundreds of years by the dual censorship of being female and indigenous. Castillo replaced the term “Chicana feminism” with “Xicanisma” to include mestiza women on both sides of the border. In history, myth, interviews, and ethnography Castillo revisits her reflections on Chicana activism, spiritual practices, sexual attitudes, artistic ideology, labor struggles, and education-related battles. Her book remains a compelling document, enhanced here with a new afterword that reexamines the significance of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Front Cover 1 Title Page 4 Copyright 5 Contents 10 Foreword by Clarissa Pinkola Estés 12 Acknowledgments 20 Introduction 22 1: A Countryless Woman: The Early Feminista 38 2: The 1986 Watsonville Women’s Strike: A Case of Mexicana/Chicana Activism 60 3: The Ancient Roots of Machismo 86 4: Saintly Mother and Soldier’s Whore: The Leftist/Catholic Paradigm 112 5: In the Beginning There Was Eva 134 6: La Macha: Toward an Erotic Whole Self 152 7: Brujas and Curanderas: A Lived Spirituality 174 8: Un Tapiz: The Poetics of Conscientización 194 9: Toward the Mother-Bond Principle 212 10: Resurrection of the Dreamers 240 Afterword: The Real and True Meaning of Our Lady of Guadalupe 258 Notes 266 Back Cover 287