This dissertation examines African American writing (mid 1980 to present) in three disciplines—Womanist Theology, Black Feminism, and Black Psychology for betterment statements delineating ways to enhance liberation, quality of life and well-being for African Americans. African American writing of this period encourages change in the sociopolitical culture of various African American communities by recommending specific kinds of action tasks focusing on self-determination, self-empowerment, and critical awareness. These recommendations are called proposals in this dissertation. In African American writing, proposals come to signify formulations of liberative possibility, passionately describing significant ideas delineating notions of destiny, happiness, freedom, and well-being. This dissertation conducts a content analysis of proposals to explore these significant ideas as the salient interests in African American writing across these three disciplines. These salient interests are the leading trends in the articulation of visions for a new or improved society. The problem, however, is that the pronouncement of new visions has sustained a predominant priority in African American writing, stymieing opportunities to advance the constructive potential inherent in proposal statements. The constructive contribution of this dissertation is to re-organize the salient interests identified in the content analysis into a usable synthesis as a model for complementarity, generative power, and constructive agency. This work aims to help advance more constructive work in response to scholarly invitations for new visions for a transformed society.