Eloquent Rage
A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Author: Brittney Cooper
ISBN: 9781250112576
Roxane Gay: "I encourage you to check out Eloquent Rage out now."Joy Reid, Cosmopolitan: "A dissertation on black women’s pain and possibility."Damon Young: "Like watching the world’s best Baptist preacher but with sermons about intersectionality and Beyoncé instead of Ecclesiastes." Melissa Harris Perry: “I was waiting for an author who wouldn’t forget, ignore, or erase us black girls...I was waiting and she has come in Brittney Cooper.â€Michael Eric Dyson: “Cooper may be the boldest young feminist writing today...and she will make you laugh out loud.â€So what if it’s true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be. In the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper reminds us that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting.Far too often, Black women’s anger has been caricatured into an ugly and destructive force that threatens the civility and social fabric of American democracy. But Cooper sho
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publish Date: 2018-02-20
Subjects: Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs, Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations
This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: African American/Black Studies)