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Study Up For 'Think': What Is Womanism?

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How do women of color interpret feminism, especially through the lens of the black church?

Keri Day of Brite Divinity School uses womanism, a term coined by author Alice Walker, to describe the  perspective of feminism with slavery and segregation in its periphery. Day wrote  She's on the air with Krys Boyd at noon to discuss the black church's influence in the political and social realms.

This new application of the idea of womanism is pretty uncommon in mainstream literature on feminism. Consult to familiarize yourself with womanist ideology. There's also to get you caught up.

Listen to Think from noon to 2 p.m., Monday through Thursday, on ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº 90.1 or stream live at

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