SOURCE: "The Axis of Herstory," in The Nation, Vol. 258, No. 18, May 9, 1994, pp. 634-37.

In the following review, Clausen finds The Last Generation prophetic of racial, class, and gender clashes to come in the twenty-first century.

In The Last Generation: Prose and Poetry, Cherríe Moraga records this wrenching break from a Chicana perspective:

I write this on the one-week anniversary of the death of the Nicaraguan Revolution.

We are told not to think of it as a death, but I am in mourning…. There is a protest. We, my camarada and I, get off the subway. I can already hear the voices chanting from a distance. We can't make out what they're saying, but they are Latinos and my heart races, seeing so many brown faces…. as I come closer to the circle of my people. I am stunned. "¡Viva la paz en Nicaragua!" it states. "¡Viva George...