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Cheryl Clarke, Angela Davis, bell hooks, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Alice Walkerfrom the pioneers of black womens studies comes , the definitive collection of race and gender writings today. Including Alice Walkers groundbreaking elucidation of the term womanist, discussions of womens rights as human rights, and a piece on the Obama factor, the collection speaks to the ways in which feminism has evolved and how black women have confronted racism within it. is director of the African and African American Studies Program at Arizona State University, where she holds a joint appointment with the Women's and Gender Studies Program is a professor of English and women's studies, the former director of the Emory Institute for Women's Studies, and current chair of the English Department at Emory University. is president of the National Women's Studies Association, the founding director of the Women's Research and Resource Center, and a professor of women's studies at Spelman College.