Africana Womanism

Front 1

"For the majority of black women also, racism has been the most important obstacle in the acquisition of the basic needs for survival."

Back 1

Filomina Chioma Steady

Front 2

"Women who are calling themselves black feminists need another word that describes what their concerns are. Black Feminism is not a word that describes the plight of black women."

Back 2

Julia Hare

Front 3

"Blacks are oppressed and that means unreasonably burdened, unjustly, severely, rigorously, cruelly, and harshly fettered by white authority. White women, on the other hand, are only suppressed and that means checked, restrained, excluded from conscious and overt activity. And that is the difference.

Back 3

Linda LaRue

Front 4

Womanist

Back 4

Prefers women's culture instead of race culture. Wants the individual man sexually or non sexually.

Front 5

Dolores Aldridge

Back 5

Women's lib movement had negative impact on the black liberation movement.

Front 6

Africana Womanism

Back 6

Paradigm in which the family is at the center of everything. Prioritizes race first, then class, the gender.

Front 7

Alice Walker

Back 7

Feminism and womanism are two shades of the same thing.

Womanist = Black Feminist.

Front 8

Zulu Sofola

Back 8

South African playwright.

Female gender is the center of life.

Afro-centric point of view.

Front 9

"Establish their own racial and cultural integrity."

Back 9

Bettina Aptheker.

Front 10

"Black women and white women are not the same. For example, it is easy for Black women to be used by the power structure against Black men, not because they are Black."

Back 10

Audre Lorde

Front 11

"From Marginalization to Center"

Back 11

bell hooks

Front 12

"Toward a Black Feminist Criticism"

Back 12

Barbara Smith

lesbianism = feminsim

Front 13

Ruth Mompati

Back 13

South African activist

Sexism as secondary problem

Economic power rests in hands of dominant culture

Front 14

Sojourner Truth

Back 14

"Ain't I A Woman?"

Front 15

Nommo

Back 15

African term

Proper naming

Gains essence

"Speak into existence"

Front 16

"It is through nommo, the correct naming of a thing, that it comes into existence."

Back 16

Barbara Christian