Alice Walker: The Womanist

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Other Resources Used:
1) Alice Walker Profile “Redemption Songs”
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2) Pulitzer Prize Black History
“Fiction, Poetry, and, Drama Winners to Read This Black History Month”
www.pulitzer.org/list/15831
3) Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Volume 2)
Alice Walker (pg 1176-1205)
4) Color Purple Summary
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I love this!

[@cosmicneuromelanatedgoddess]

YES 💜

[@estherdmitriy5032]

Are only black women womanist?? Or is it also for all woc?

[@rileywilson9839]

Womanism focuses specifically on Black female struggle. Being womanist is a specific space black women created for ourselves. I would say only black women can be womanists.

[@aniyahseabrook5511]

only black women, but you can practice intersectional feminism

[@MrArtVein]

Apparently nobody actually read Womanism literature because it specifically talks about Black women, women in South America and the Islands. Womanism predates intersectional feminism. Native American women got the right to vote only about 10 years before this literature was produced.

[@TrevanneFoxton]

And I’m a proud Womanist (Black feminist).

[@MrArtVein]

Womanism isn't Black Feminism. Womanism is to Feminism as Interdependence is to Independence. Feminists wanted a way to punish White men for giving Black male slaves the right to vote before White women with the 3/5ths compromise. Womanists wanted a way to save their family structures while retaining some autonomy. Feminism is eff everyone the patriarchy is the problem. Womanism is wait Black men make less money and are less educated than us, are they part of the patriarchy? If not what can I do to keep my family together and retain my ability to think for myself. Men are not enemy in Womanism, the social concept of the American family is.