I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation (Prophetic Christianity)

by Chanequa Walker-Barnes

Shug and Celie’s conversation about God reveals how deeply Christian theology and tradition are embedded into the internalized oppression of women of color. Because understandings of what it means to be female are linked to our understanding of God, “a reconstruction of womanhood requires a reconstruction of God.”