This article explores and exposes the various ways by which the black woman is recouped from varied domineering structures that have continued to limit her progress and contribution to development in the USA. Black women have greatly progressed, but still, some instances continue to resurge and delimit black female contributions that have already been impacted. In response to the following questions, this article reverberates two basic strategies and concerns that are intricate in rebuilding and unravelling the black woman’s distinctiveness in the USA centuries gone. Are there edifices that continue to impound black women in the US? How does she resist them in the communities in which she finds herself? How successful does she emerge at the end of Alice Walker’s narratives under study? Based on created and achieved consciousness, to resist such devaluing structures for black women, the heroines and black female characters primly engage individual determination/ motivation, and bonding as agencies that are cogently provocative of substantial change. Black feminist standpoints of Barbara Smith and Bell Hooks have been adopted to guide the articulations of this paper highlighting the intertwining and influence of racial, gender, sexual, and classist structures to formulate an accurate identity for the black woman. Nonetheless, resistance is tantamount to revolutionary change and development of the black woman from the margins to the centre