Table of Contents
Katie's Canon 25th Anniversary Proposed Structure
Forward
New Forward- Emilie M. Townes
Introduction- Katie's Original
New Introduction- Womanist Perspectival Discourse
Part One*:
Womanism as unapologetic moral agency of Black women grounded in consciousness, critique and creativity
1. Surviving the Blight
2. Emergence of Black Feminist Consciousness
3. Moral Wisdom In the Black Women's Literary Tradition
4. Unctuousness as Virtue- According to the Life of Zora Neale Hurston
Part Two*:
Womanism as indivisibly inclusive approach to justice-making essential to survival and wholeness of entire people, male and female
5. Hitting a Straight Lick With A Crooked Stick: The Womanist Dilemma in the Development of Black Liberation Ethic
6. Appropriation and Reciprocity in the Doing of Womanist Ethics
7. Womanist Interpretation and Preaching in the Black Church
8. Sexing Black Women: Liberation from the Prisonhouse of Anatomical Authority
Part Three*:
Womanism as defiant affirmation of loving our own sources, stories and culture, regardless
9. Exposing My Home Point of View
10. Resources for a Constructive Ethic: The Life and Work of Zora Neale Hurston
11. Teaching Afrocentric Ethics: The Hinges Upon Which the Future Swings
12. Racism and Economics: The Perspective of Oliver C. Cox
Part Four*:
Womanism as continual moral commitment to participate in critical and constructive movements of the Dance of Redemption in order to "remembering what we never knew."
13. Slave Ideology and Biblical Interpretation
14. The Wounds of Jesus: Justification of Goodness in the Face of Manifold Evil
15. Metalogues and Dialogues: Teaching the Womanist Idea
16. Unearthing Ethical Treasures: The Intrusive Markers of Social Class
