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 a new chapter, an Africana womanist reading of Angie Thomas' 21st century novel, The Hate U Give, a Prologue, a full-length interview with the author (2000), never before published in its entirety; 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.
About the Author: Clenora Hudson (Weems) coined the concept of Africana Womanism in the 1980s in addition to establishing Emmett Till as a catalyst of the Civil Rights Movement.
She was distinguished Honoree for the 1st International Africana Womanism Conference at the University of Zimbabwe (OCT 2010), and the Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor at the U of Iowa 50th Anniversary of African American Studies, delivering the Keynote Address, "Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison as a Model Africana Womanist Artivist for Social Justice" (OCT 2021).
