Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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