ABSTRACT
Womanism, as coined by Alice Walker in In Search of our Mother's Garden employs a critical cultural lens to validate the special vantage point of black women from many intersecting paradigms black lesbian, black queer, black poor women, and the very junctions of these identities. Agroecology is a dual process of ecological agricultural production and organizing and building community self-determination that builds upon ancestral and cultural knowledge. In agreement with Patricia Hill Collins, the controversy over naming is a political distraction that diverts attention from the dire need of black women's liberation. Alice Walkers's universalist lens of centering the liberation of all people while appreciating and preferring women's culture and emotional flexibility differs from Clenora Hudson-Weems's nationalist lens that theorizes an ideology created and designed for all women of African descent and sits separately from white and black feminisms. Africana Womanism centers the 'unique' experiences, struggles, needs, and desires of Africana women and differs from African feminism.
