ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a theoretical construct that boldly restores meaning within historical and cultural contexts that are peculiar to the African and African Diaspora woman’s experiences. It offers an element historically denied such women: a choice. The author application of the Africana womanist theory to Black life and literary texts proves to be both accurate and useful as people search for appropriate theories and methodologies for Africana writers. In making feminism more inclusive, while appealing to a larger audience, intersectionality was strategically introduced. Traditional feminism since its inception, until the terminology intersectionality was introduced in 1989, was gender exclusive, which now advocates an interest in racism and classism, too. The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.
