ABSTRACT
Despite the oppressiveness of higher education, Black women have shown up and shown out in the academy. Essentially, they have adopted an oppositional stance that affords them the space to affirm and uphold their embodied knowledge. Their liberatory posture, both generative and protective, shields against epistemic violence. In their collectivity, then, Black women in the academy actively engage in the dismantling of anti-Black women oppression. Within this context, I revisit enact, discard, and transform, a model centering Black women’s agency, to position the narratives within this book.
