Africana Womanism Reclaiming Ourselves | Gender Studies

The sixth edition of Africana Womanism provides important updates to the classic text in which Clenora Hudson (Weems) sets out a paradigm for women of African descent. Differentiating itself from the problematic theories of Western feminisms Africana Womanism allows an establishment of cultural identity and relationship directly to ancestry and land. Introduced in the mid-1980s Africana Womanism offers a new term and paradigm for women of African descent a family-centered concept prioritizing race class and gender. This new edition includes an Africana Womanist reading of Angie Thomas’ twenty-first-century novel The Hate U Give continuing existing Africana Womanist readings of twentieth-century novels by Hurston Bâ Marshall Morrison and Mc Millan; a Prologue a previously unpublished interview with the author; a revised conclusion; updated bibliographies; an updated annotated bibliography; and a new section outlining key questions clarifications considerations and commentaries surrounding Africana Womanism in relation to other female-based theories. Africana Womanism remains an important work and essential reading for researchers and students in women and gender studies Africana studies African American studies literary studies and cultural studies. |Africana Womanism Reclaiming Ourselves | Gender Studies