womanist

in her 1983 book, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, Alice Walker coined this word to denote a black feminist. Black feminists and other women of color wanted to broaden the scope of feminism beyond a white middle-class perspective and to explore the intersections of ethnicity, race, class, and gender. (Walker said, "Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.") See also feminisms, feminism.