In "Coming Apart" by Alice Walker, she first uses the term womanism when describing the protagonist of her short story. In the past, feminism has been seen racist to women of color. Womanism allows African Americans and women of minority to embrace their heritage and culture. Feminism 's main cause works end the inferiority women against men. On the other hand, black women and white women do not have the same struggles, womanism searches for fulfillment of their surroundings with other beings, relationships and nature (Lewis). "Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender," (Alice Walker) explains the meaning of the coined phrase rather abstractly. In Walker 's writing of The Color Purple, the protagonist, Celie, faces an African American man who has beat, raped, stolen letters and her own children to later state he no longer obtains power over her. The previous example, conveys Walker 's womanistic views of a woman from a background of minority fighting back against the restraints of her ethnicity. Walker experienced life during the most radical of times fighting back against people of color suppression, and conveys experiences into her
In "Coming Apart" by Alice Walker, she first uses the term womanism when describing the protagonist of her short story. In the past, feminism has been seen racist to women of color. Womanism allows African Americans and women of minority to embrace their heritage and culture. Feminism 's main cause works end the inferiority women against men. On the other hand, black women and white women do not have the same struggles, womanism searches for fulfillment of their surroundings with other beings, relationships and nature (Lewis). "Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender," (Alice Walker) explains the meaning of the coined phrase rather abstractly. In Walker 's writing of The Color Purple, the protagonist, Celie, faces an African American man who has beat, raped, stolen letters and her own children to later state he no longer obtains power over her. The previous example, conveys Walker 's womanistic views of a woman from a background of minority fighting back against the restraints of her ethnicity. Walker experienced life during the most radical of times fighting back against people of color suppression, and conveys experiences into her