For Womanists, identity is also connected to the body.10 I’ve been forced to ask where my body can stand that actually makes predominantly White institutions feel good about themselves. In this thought I agree with M. Shawn Copeland, who notes that the “Black woman’s body has been reduced to body parts—parts that allowed white men pleasure, however unsettling; parts that afforded white men economic gain; parts that literally nursed the heirs of White racist supremacy.”11 Part of recognizing my own identity as a Black woman in the United States is recognizing that Black women’s bodies have
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