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Book Reviews August 21, 2020

Building Womanist Coalitions:  Writing and Teaching in the Spirit of Love

Courtney Pace

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Author
Lemons, Gary L., ed.
Date Reviewed
August 21, 2020
Reviewer
Courtney Pace, Equity for Women in the Church, Inc.

Over the last generation, the womanist idea—and the tradition blooming around it—has emerged as an important response to separatism, domination, and oppression. Gary L. Lemons gathers a diverse group of writers to discuss their scholarly and personal experiences with the womanist spirit of women of color feminisms.

Feminist and womanist-identified educators, students, performers, and poets model the powerful ways that crossing borders of race, gender, class, sexuality, and nation-state affiliation(s) expands one's existence. At the same time, they bear witness to how the self-liberating theory and practice of women of color feminism changes one's life. Throughout, the essayists come together to promote an unwavering vein of activist comradeship capable of building political alliances dedicated to liberty and social justice. (From the Publisher)