SOURCE: "Luz María Umpierre with Cherríe Moraga," in The Americas Review, Vol. XIV, No. 2, Summer 1986, pp. 54-67.

In the following interview, Moraga discusses her writing and her position as a Latina writer in the United States.

I interviewed Cherríe Moraga during the summer of 1985 at her home in Brooklyn. By then her book Loving in the War Years had been published and I was particularly interested in the essays included in the collection. I was also interested in having Cherríe Moraga herself do a self-portrait of her life as a Chicana and a Lesbian.

[Umpierre:] Artists should be allowed to do self-portraits of themselves; so, in that spirit, who is Cherríe Moraga?

[Moraga:] First of all, I am originally from Los Angeles and I am Chicana. All of my family are Chicanos. My father is Anglo, so I basically grew up in the...