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1996 ◽  
Vol 37 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 313-314
Author(s):  
M. V. McBride
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American Culture ◽  
University Of California ◽  
African American Culture

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History.

1998 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
pp. 1471
Author(s):  
V. P. Franklin ◽  
Jack Salzman ◽  
David Lionel Smith ◽  
Cornel West
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American Culture ◽  
African American Culture

History and Memory in African-American Culture.

1995 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 1174
Author(s):  
Craig Werner ◽  
Genevieve Fabre ◽  
Robert O'Meally
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American Culture ◽  
African American Culture ◽  
History And Memory

African Female Circumcision and the Missionary Mentality

1997 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-57
Author(s):  
Joyce Russell-Robinson
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Female Circumcision ◽  
Alice Walker ◽  
African Countries ◽  
African American Culture ◽  
American Women ◽  
Do So

Alice Walker and former Democratic Congresswoman Pat Schroeder of Colorado have something in common. Both advocate the cessation of female circumcision in African countries, and both tout themselves as feminists, though Walker, borrowing from African American culture, prefers to be labeled as a womanist. What the elders had in mind when they described young African American women as “womanish,” or as “omanish,” the eclipsed form of that same word, was that such girls were too fast, or that they obtruded upon areas that were not their business. While Schroeder cannot properly be called a womanist (to do so would be to misapply the term), one can say that, similar to Alice Walker, Schroeder is putting herself into other people’s business, specifically the business of female circumcision in African communities.

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