Clenora hudson weems biography

African-American author and academic (born )

Clenora F. Hudson-Weems (born July 23, )^[1] is an African-American author and academic who is currently a professor of English at the University of Missouri.^[2] She coined the term "Africana womanism" in the late s, contending that women of African descent have always been Africana womanists by their very nature, dating back to Africana women in antiquity, even before the coinage of the word itself.

Africana Womanism, a family-centered paradigm, observed this phenomenon, then proceeded in naming and defining a paradigm relative to who Africana women are and how they go about their daily lives in both the home place and the workplace.

Hudson-Weems wrote a research paper entitled "The Tripartite Plight of the Black Woman—Racism, Classism and Sexism—in Our Nig, Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Color Purple" during her first semester as a Ph.D.

student at the University of Iowa in ^[