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I argue that the circulation of black agential feeling is at issue and to better understand it, prevailing scholarship about different categories of agency are referenced by scholars working in such diverse fields as anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and art education to assist with a definition of agency at work here. This work counteracts early American debates about the absence of agential potential among the enslaved—as a reason to keep them enslaved—and among free blacks—as a reason to subject them to ongoing second-class citizenship. Each chapter presents fine art as producing agency that is at once affective and effective for the individual and black society at large. The aim is to analyze art practice as a practice of agency that is proof of black capacity, and focuses on the practice of intellectual reflection on the works of art and empowerment experienced by the African American community of viewers who then reflect on the art object. This agency stimulates self-recognition and the determination to achieve. The critical question is how did African America's engagement with the visual arts impact group identity? It is agential artistic production, collection and curation of African American art that aids and influences the broader African American community and stimulates a sense of self-recognition that supports other forms of agential community engagement."]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["African American Agency and the Art Object, 1868-1917"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Grinde, Donald","Transnational Studies - American Studies","Africana and American Studies"],"dc:creator":["Hawkins, Cynthia"],"dc:date":["2019-10-29T16:47:47Z","2019","2019-08-01 15:55:06"],"dc:description":["Ph.D.","This dissertation is an intervention in the discourse of agency which has longbeen formulated as foreclosed for black Americans. 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