This book explores the generational divide over questions related to agency. While traditional black feminists tend to see new images of black women negatively as a retreat and an impediment to progress, younger black women tend to embrace these new images and see them in a positive light. After carefully setting up this divide, this book sugges

Dr. Maria del Guadalupe Davidson is Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program and Co-Director of the Center for Social Justice at the University of Oklahoma

Introduction Agency Born of Struggle Chapter One THE CONSTRUCTED AGENT: POSTMODERNISM, WHITE FEMINISM AND BLACK MALE AGENCY Chapter Two HISTORICIZING AGENCY IN THE BLACK FEMINIST TRADITION: A PHENMENOLOGY OF THE BLACK FEMALE BODY Chapter Three MILLENNIALS: BLACK WOMEN FORMING AND TRANSFORMING AGENCY Chapter Four MILLENNIALS: BLACK WOMEN FORMING AND TRANSFORMING AGENCY Chapter Five THE THINGS THEY CONTINUE TO CARRY: BLACK WOMEN'S AGENCY TODAY AND TOMORROW Chapter Six CONCLUSION: ON THE GREAYNESS OF GRAY Bibliography