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I think this page is very poorly done, it seems more like a stub than an actual article and portrays a poor understanding of Womanism as opposed to Feminism.

The Wiki piece on Womanism really should be treated as a stub because it gives a rather poor understanding of womanism as it relates to feminism, particularly in the context of Walker's text. For Walker, womanism includes feminism. She says that womanism is to feminism as purple is to lavender. Purple is the larger category to which lavender belongs.

The reason that many African-Americans inclined towards Feminism (even male "Feminists" such as myself) don't fully identify with it is because "mainstream" Feminism is mostly Eurocentric. Black women are the daughters of women who had to work everyday, who were forced to be the mothers through Paramour Rights and who were the objects of de-humanization. White women are the daughters of of the white women who profited from the labor of African-American mades and cleaners who did hard work for White families that were wealthy enough to hire cleaning services. Many White women fought to get out of the kitchen while many African-American women fought for equal pay with men and equal protection and equal rights.

The article does on Womanism does a poor job explaining why many African-Americans inclined towards Feminism reject fully identifying with it. I should be tagged as incomplete. --User:Full Shunyata 20:44, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

I agree that this page is significantly sub-par and does not accurately represent the spectrum of womanist thought, much less the distinctions between womanism and feminism. Its depiction of early feminist is also so simplistic as to be inaccurate. I don't have the expertise to fix this myself but I strongly urge that someone step in to correct this woefully inaccurate portrayal of an important current in black feminist thought. I seem to be anonymous only because Wikipedia can't seem to hang onto my login. This is the user known as rentstrike.

[edit] Africana Womanism

This page needs to include information on Africana Womanism, as developed by Chikwenye Ongunyemi 198.54.202.102 (talk) 15:36, 15 March 2008 (UTC)