Clenora Hudson Feminism Summary

Since time immemorial the African woman and generally any woman with an African descent have had the plight of struggling to achieve equality and do away with stereotyping so as to develop there selves and be to the same standards more or less as the white woman. Feminism is ordained among the black women not due to gender but because of color. Freeman notes that colored women are not just handicapped on the basis of their gender but are more mocked because of their race. Clenora Hudson-Weems explores the plight of feminism to all women with African descent that is categorically focused on the African culture that mainstreams the black feminist, the African womanist and the African feminist.
Clenora Hudson-Weems in her article notes that the African woman has evolved due to struggles, strains and hardships against racial prejudice and discrimination through stereotyping
to be where she is. The plight of the African woman to move to the direction of freedom is mired by factors that are on constant struggle against their freedom that of which is dominated by the society at large. This direction is induced by the same women treating fellow women with cruelty instead of them uniting to develop. On the same Morrison notes and depicts the way women treat other women harshly and especially in their workplace just so as to outshine. On the contrary it is through the oppressions that the African woman and more specifically the black woman has undergone that should be the main motivating factor for developed joint effort to move forward.
Hudson uses a construction of the black woman in relation to women with African descent to chronologically show the efforts and the paradigm that is associated with class, gender and race in concurrence to black female/male relationship in the direction to black survival.
She induces and uses different theorist such as Collins, Morrison and Giddings in her article to critically analyze the aspect of feminism and women feminist. In relation to the struggle of the black people to have the same social status quo as the white people and in this regards the black woman, Hudson notes the evolvement of race chauvinist organizations such as the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) that profoundly impacted against the struggle of racial prejudice. This organization was formed by white women of the northern scope and thereafter the southern white women formed theirs. The racial prejudice to an extend based on the blacks was eminent in the idealistic scope that white supremacy was dominant in the 19th century such that black men and women were banned from voting as Hudson quotes Giddings
work.
The evidence provided by Clenora Hudson-Weems strongly support her Thesis that the women with African descent and most ideally the black women have evolved due to the struggled efforts they have put in place against race, gender and stereotyping. It is through such mechanism that the black woman has evolved to outshine and develop herself. African womanism and its goals are unique in that they form clear distinction from both black feminism and white feminism. Nevertheless, this is also to the extent of naming as Africana womanism is significantly different from African feminism.