Africana-Melanated Womanism

Clenora Hudson (Weems), PhD, is a professor, author, screenwriter, producer, and the conceptualizer of Africana Womanism. She co-authored, with Dr Wilfred D. Samuels, Toni Morrison (1990), the first critical study of the Nobel Laureate. She is the author of four books on Africana Womanism and four on Emmett Till, whom she established as the true catalyst of the Civil Rights Movement in her 1988 Ford doctoral dissertation, “Emmett Louis Till: The Impetus of the Modern Civil Right Movement,” at the University of Iowa, published in 1994 as Emmett Till: The Sacrificial Lamb of the Civil Rights Movement. She is also the editor of Contemporary Africana Theory, Thought and Action: A Guide to Africana Studies (2007) and Africana Paradigms, Practices and Literary Texts: Evoking Social Justice (2021).