She is author of Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (University of Illinois Press, May 2017) and Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (St. Cooper is co-editor of The Crunk Feminist Collection (The Feminist Press 2017). Her cultural commentary has been featured on MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes, Melissa Harris-Perry, Al Jazeera’s Third Rail, the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, PBS,, ,, and TED.com.ĭr. And she is a contributing writer for and a former contributor to. She is co-founder of the popular Crunk Feminist Collective blog. In Brittney Cooper’s world, neither mean girls nor fuckboys ever win. She thinks Black feminism can change the world for the better.īrittney is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. She is author of Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Brittney Cooper is a writer, teacher, and public speaker. Her cultural commentary has been featured on MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes, Melissa Harris-Perry, Al Jazeera’s Third Rail, the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, PBS,, ,, and TED.com. She is co-founder of the popular Crunk Feminist Collective blog. Brittney is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. She thinks Black feminism can change the world for the better. This book argues that ultimately feminism, friendship, and faith in one's own superpowers are all we really need to turn things right side up again.Ī BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY: Glamour Brittney Cooper is a writer, teacher, and public speaker. In Brittney Cooper's world, neither mean girls nor fuckboys ever win. And it took another intervention, this time staged by one of her homegirls, to turn Brittney into the fierce feminist she is today. When Cooper learned of her grandmother's eloquent rage about love, sex, and marriage in an epic and hilarious front-porch confrontation, her life was changed. Cooper is a generous writer, affording even those she rages against good humored compassion, but never letting. It reminds women that they don't have to settle for less. Eloquent Rage is as exhilarating as it is vulnerable, a crucial book that tackles friendship and feminism, Hillary Clinton and Sandra Bland, violence and family, sex and faith and race and gender, all with vibrant grace and honesty. It's what makes Michelle Obama an icon.Įloquent rage keeps us all honest and accountable. It's what makes Beyoncé's girl power anthems resonate so hard. Black women's eloquent rage is what makes Serena Williams such a powerful tennis player. But Cooper shows us that there is more to the story than that. 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.įar 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. So what if it's true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be. Michael Eric Dyson: " Cooper may be the boldest young feminist writing today.and she will make you laugh out loud." I was waiting and she has come in Brittney Cooper." Melissa Harris Perry: "I was waiting for an author who wouldn't forget, ignore, or erase us black girls. There is so much about her analysis that I relate to and grapple with on a daily basis as a Latina feminist."ĭamon Young: "Like watching the world's best Baptist preacher but with sermons about intersectionality and Beyoncé instead of Ecclesiastes." Far too often, Black women’s anger has been caricatured into an ug. Joy Reid, Cosmopolitan: "A dissertation on black women's pain and possibility."Īmerica Ferrera: "Razor sharp and hilarious. Read 1,524 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Roxane Gay : "I encourage you to check out Eloquent Rage out now." Rebecca Solnit, The New Republic: "Funny, wrenching, pithy, and pointed." The Guardian ("Top 10 Books About Angry Women").Fast Company ("10 Best Books for Battling Your Sexist Workplace").Politico Magazine ("What the 2020 Candidates Are Reading This Summer").NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018/ MENTIONED BY: The New York Public Library.An Emma Watson "Our Shared Shelf" Selection for November/December 2018
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