ABSTRACT
In this chapter I examine what an integrated feminist, anti-colonial, artbased methodology is, and how it can be used for research and praxis inside and outside of academia to create critical methods and practices that support African based-popular culture and ‘emancipatory’ praxis. In particular, my focus is on African/black women’s roles in various social movements. “African women” and “black women” are used interchangeably and together in this chapter to mean any woman of African ancestry or descent-for example, women from the Caribbean and Latin America, who are black and women of African descent. I am not referring here to non-black or non-African women who were born in the Caribbean, Latin America, or Africa. Moreover, “African/black women” is being used as a political term suggesting the author’s preferred choice of identity. In addition, “African woman” is being used to represent the struggle against colonialism that has denied the African heritage of so many black women who were taken against their will, repeatedly violated, and sold into slavery, as well as their sisters, mothers, grandmothers, and other family members that were left behind in the African Continent. This denial can be internal and external, and it tries to divide survivors of colonialism between those who stayed in colonial Africa and those who were stolen from Africa and brought to colonial countries around the world.
