Through the Eyes of Rebel Women: The Young Lords, 1969-1976

THROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN: The Young Lords, 1969-1976 iTHROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN: The Young Lords, 1969-1976 is the first account of women members -- a "story within a story" told from the inside out. The Young Lords Organization emerged in the late sixties to fight poverty, racial and gender inequality, and the colonial status of Puerto Rico. Women joined to build a people's movement for justice and fought the "revolution within the revolution" believing that women's equality was inseparable from the society's progress as a whole.

Written and edited by Iris Morales, THROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN consists of essays, interviews, and primary source documents. Morales chronicles the revolutionary rise of the Young Lords, the role and contributions of women, the opening of branches in Puerto Rico, and the group's demise.

Personal interviews with former women members captured for the film Palante, Siempre Palante! The Young Lords have been edited for the book. Photographs and articles from the early 1970s complete the narrative. The entire volume affirms that social movements do not develop in a vacuum but arise to spearhead solutions to the injustices occurring in society.

Dr. Edna Acosta-Belén, distinguished historian and women's studies scholar, writes: "These women activists are ... the brave feminist warriors who battled for equality in intersecting (not isolated or separated) arenas of class, race, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality; part of that noble league of defenders of universal human rights."

Ericka Huggins, human rights activist, former Black Panther Party member, and political prisoner, summarizes: "As I read this book, I was continually inspired by the history of the Young Lords and the great women within it. Iris Morales writes a story that parallels the story of the women in the Black Panther Party and women throughout the globe. The structural and interpersonal work we must do to uplift humanity always starts from the inside out!"

Through the Eyes of Rebel Women is a must-read for everyone interested in the Puerto Rican and grassroots movements of the 1960s and 70s in the United States.

Author: Iris Morales
Publisher: Red Sugarcane Press
Published: 11/01/2016
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9780996827614

About the Author
Morales, Iris: - Iris Morales is an educator and lifelong community activist. She brings her legacy of social justice activism to projects with young people, teachers, and media producers promoting racial and gender justice, and the decolonization of Puerto Rico. Ms. Morales has built organizations dedicated to grassroots organizing, education, and media. Currently, as founder and executive editor of Red Sugarcane Press, she publishes books dedicated to the diasporic history and culture of Puerto Ricans, Blacks, Indigenous, and other people of color in the Americas. Ms. Morales is an attorney, a graduate of New York University School of Law, and earned an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College in New York.

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