Womanism and Re-Imagining Black Women's Health Promotion.

Abstract

Black women have been historically disenfranchised by the healthcare system. We apply a Womanist framework-a social change model developed by Black women scholars, including Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Clenora Hudson-Weems, Layli Philips and many others- to health promotion, reimagining Black women's health grounded in a framework designed by Black women. Five modalities in particular-dialogue, harmonizing and coordinating, hospitality, mutual aid and social support, and mothering- present an opportunity for radical change within health promotion. We offer a consideration of how these modalities might be utilized to improve health promotion for Black women.