"In this sixth edition of Africana Womanism, Clenora Hudson (Weems) delivers an unparalleled masterpiece informed by critical analysis of texts from the Africana village, which includes nineteenth-century church Black women activists, Africana historians, social and cultural theorists, poets, and novelists. Africana Womanism’s fate is sealed as an enduring classic that adeptly and precisely articulates the origins and conceptualization of a wholistic multi-diasporic womanism. It is a finely curated expanded assemblage of wisdom that includes an annotated bibliography, a complete syllabus for teaching Africana womanism and an instructive interview on topics from Alice Walker’s "womanist" to polygamy and globalization. We are in it together!"
Mitzi J. Smith, New Testament Professor and author of Womanist Sass and Talk Back: Social (In)Justice, Intersectionality, and Biblical Interpretation and I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader
"Reflecting the heartbeat of Africana women globally, Clenora Hudson (Weems) unapologetically chronicles the desires and will of Black women to affirm their humanity, and to reimagine, and reinvent a world more just, while embracing their authentic selves. The current discourse on justice and equity is incomplete without an Afrocentric Africana Womanism lens to fortify the authentic inclusion of Africana women, families and communities. It challenges systemic racism, classism and sexism from an Africana cultural epistemology to recenter Africana phenomenon. Therefore, Africana Womanism serves as a critical disruptive paradigm that dismantles oppressive ideologies and restores Africana family heritage to its rightful and victorious place in Africana communities. This new edition encapsulates the terminological evolution of Africana Womanism to Africana-Melanated Womanism pedagogy, for it continues to champion Africana family systems as central to the advancement and liberation of Africana women and their communities."
Marquita Gammage, Professor & Chair of Africana Studies Department at California State University, Northridge, and author of Representations of Black Women in the Media (Routledge)
"Clenora Hudson (Weems) continues her robust theoretical and analytical inquiry into the nature of Africana Womanism with this powerful work. Unquestionably, Hudson-Weems is the most important theorist writing on this aspect of the African world. I recommend this book and suggest that it should be high on the list of valuable contributions to your syllabus and general reading. Salute!"
Molefi Kete Asante, Professor and Chair, Department of African American Studies at Temple University; author of The History of Africa
"Three things are primary to any discussion of Womanist thought: the people, the language and the land. In this New Edition, Clenora Hudson (Weems) links these key features while reminding us of race, gender and family centrality to Black communal wholeness. As one of the originators of womanist thought, everything Hudson-Weems has to say about the subject is important to know. The book’s new section makes this text not only important but also essential to any serious study of Africana womanist thought and its contemporary development. She offers complex and provocative discussions that deepen our consideration of what an Africana womanist is, does, perceives, and preserves. I recommend it for courses and personal, intellectual gratification."
Debra Walker King, Professor of English, University of Florida; author of African Americans and the Culture of Pain
"Congratulations to Dr. Hudson (Weems) for yet another pace-setting and mind-liberating volume. Africana Womanism (New Edition) is not just an idea in the academe. More important, it is a living part of the everyday energy and struggles for self-definition and self-naming that Africans, wherever they are, pursue with unmitigated commitment."
Itai Muhwati, Professor and Dean of Arts, University of Zimbabwe; editor of Dariro: African Theory of Participation and Performance
"Clenora continues to advance Africana Womanism theory in this important volume, wherein the process began with self-naming and self-defining. This allows for a solid identifying and refining of an African-centered paradigm for worldwide Africana-Melanated women. From this, the ultimate ensues, as the theory, characterized by affirmation and engagement, seeks to unite the Africana woman and man in the on-going struggle for human survival. In so doing, the struggle continues in their communities, their countries and the world until ultimately total equity prevails."
Adele S. Newson-Horst, Professor of English, Morgan State University; editor of Winds of Change
"Africana Womanism represents Dr. Clenora Hudson (Weems)’ perception about the urgent need for Africana-Melanated people to strategize workable means by which to solidify true survival for our own. The question is, "If we don’t, then who will make possible the continuation of our legacy?" This book speaks directly to the issue of justice, and that means real equity for all on all levels, race, class and gender. It’s a meaningful book for all to read!"
Lillian A. Smith, Entrepreneur and Former Senior Producer for the Phil Donahue Show
