Yours in Struggle | THREE FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES | ON ANTI-SEMITISM AND RACISM | BY | ELLY BULKIN | MINNIE BRUCE PRATT | BARBARA SMITH | [publisher's device] | LONG HAUL PRESS BOX 592 [dot] VAN BRUNT STATION | BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11215
Copyright (c) 1984 by Elly Bulkin, Minnie Bruce Pratt, and Barbara Smith. "Hard Ground: Jewish Identity, Racism, and Anti-Semitism," copyright (c) 1984 by Elly Bulkin. "Identity: Skin Blood Heart," copyright (c) 1984 by Minnie Bruce Pratt. "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Relationships Between Black and Jewish Women," copyright (c) 1984 by Barbara Smith.
Cover design copyright (c) 1984 by Susan Yung
[1] We would like to thank the Astraea Foundation for a grant which helped with the production costs for this book. We are also very grateful to the individuals whose generous donations and pre-publication orders helped to cover printing costs. We want to express out deepest appreciation to Diane Lubarsky for the dedicated typsetting that helped us meet our printing deadline;
[2] to Chaia Lehrer for the design and layout of the headlines; to Anna Bulkin for work on promotional mailings; and to Jan Clausen, our publisher, for all her work to bring this book into existence. ELLY BULKIN: Many people contributed to my work. The editors of Conditions who read its opening sections: Dorothy Allison, Cheryl Clarke,
[3] Mirtha Quintanales, Nancy Clarke Otter, Rima Shore, and Adrienne Waddy. Those who read drafts of parts of this article at different stages in my writing: Rita Arditti, Joyce Bressler, Lawrence Bush, Renée Franco, Jewelle Gomez, Barbara Kerr, Diane Lubarsky, Judith McDaniel, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Mab Segrest, Cris South, Aida Wakil.
[4] Particular thanks are due to Cherríe Moraga and Barbara Smith for being there during a difficult winter/spring and thereby helping to make this work possible; Sherry Gorelick, Chaia Lehrer, and Shelly Weiss for consistently challenging and encouraging me; Ana Oliviera, acupuncturist extraordinaire, for keeping me healthy;
[5] Stacy Pies, an editor’s editor, a writer’s therapist, for worrying about my logic, my politics, and my topic sentences; Anna Bulkin for bearing with me; and Jan Clausen for things too numerous to be listed.
[6] MINNIE BRUCE PRATT: I would like to acknowledge that much of the work for this essay grew out of the work, conversation, friendship, and political analysis of the women with whom I co-edited Feminary magazine. I also thank Joan E. Biren for her loving support and for her hope in the struggle.
[7] BARBARA SMITH: I would like to thank all of those individuals whose practical and emotional support made it possible for me to complete this essay, especially Dorothy Allison, Nancy Bereano, Akilah Blakwomyn, Renée Franco, Jewelle Gomez, Barbara Kerr,
[8] Raymina Mays, Judith McDaniel, Betty Powell, Beverly Smith, and Aida Wakil. I would also like to thank Cherríe Moraga for her invaluable editorial help and for her continuous faith in me as a writer.
[1] Early versions of the essays included in this book originally appeared as follows: Elly Bulkin's "Origins," "Extensions," "Threads," and "Separations" appeared in Conditions; "The Male Enemy/The Left Enemy" in New Women's Times; and "Breaking a Cycle" in off our backs.
[2] Portions of Minnie Bruce Pratt's "Identity: Skin Blood Heart" were previously published under the titles "White Women, White Terror" (WIN) and "Who Am I If Not My Father's Daughter?" (Ms.). Barbara Smith's "A Rock and a Hard Place: Relationships Between Black and Jewish Women" appeared in Women's Studies Quarterly.
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Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism (1984 Long Haul Press edition)
1984 edition, published by Long Haul Press in Brooklyn, New York