Dr. Annette D. Madlock is ordained minister and chaplain, independent scholar, community, and women's health advocate. Dr. Cerise L. Glenn is associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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Contents Introduction Voicing A Womanist Ethic of Liberation and Social Justice Among the Religious Right By Annette Madlock Gatison, PhD A Womanist Response to Black Lives Matter and American Nationalism By Kimberly P. Johnson, PhD Examining Grace Greenleaf: Black Women's Activism and Spirituality By Cerise L. Glenn, PhD The Beloved Language Community: A Call for Womanism and Language to Address the Racial Academic Achievement Gap By Kami J. Anderson, PhD Is There Room for the Ratchet in the Beloved Community? If You're Not Liberating Everyone, Are You Really Talking About Freedom? By Michelle Meggs, PhD "Women, Step Forward!" Doing Rhetorical Histography by Exploring Womanist Leadership in the AME Church By Natonya Listach and Andre E. Johnson, Ph.D. I AM My Sisters Keeper: Invitational Rhetoric and Womanist Theology By Ahava Nahala Yasharahla and Michelle Rhnea Yisrael Conclusion
In this edited volume, contributors interpret and reinterpret popular culture, education, religious organizations, and social movements through the lens of womanism, Black women's unique histories and strategies for survival that foreground resistance to white supremacy, collective uplift, and spirituality. The chapters are interdisciplinary, topical, and accessible. They are self-contained and so can be assigned separately for course readings. * Choice *