![]() ![]() 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. 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. Brittney is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. Her first book was Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women, published in 2017 by University of Illinois. She thinks Black feminism can change the world for the better. Please don’t miss this conversation with a powerful woman whom I admire with all my heart.Īnd I urge you to watch this discussion and Q&A as well, from Brittney’s takeover of my Instagram in June 2020 as part of the “Share the Mic” campaign.įind book club questions for Eloquent Rage here.Brittney Cooper is a writer, teacher, and public speaker. about trying to reclaim this rage in a way that can be expressive and powerful for black women, and not in a way that will be weaponized against us, or used to delegitimize our call for justice.” As she tells me, “We live in a nation that does everything to induce our rage while simultaneously denying that we have the right to feel it.” Brittney tells me about how she has since developed the freedom to say what she thinks without fear of reprisal or judgment, and why the fragility of white egos is not a problem for her to solve. Martin’s Press February 2018 15 minutes (3,982 words) The summer before I left home for graduate school, I drove down to the rural Louisiana countryside to sit on the porch with my grandma. She is brilliant and real and wise.īrittney writes about the surprising moment that altered her life’s work, when after a lecture, a student admiringly told her that her presentation was a kind of eloquent rage: “That began a moment of reckoning for me, around how to grapple with my own anger as a person - and as a black woman, also battling the angry black woman stereotype and not wanting to succumb to it. Lessons of race, blackness and power from a self-described nerdy Black girl. ![]() In both her writing and our conversation, Brittney uses language that is at once down to earth and intellectual and discusses the weightiest issues with incredible humor. This book is essential reading for anyone who calls herself a feminist - and it’s also a beautiful and vulnerable story of Brittney’s own journey. She is also a bestselling author, professor, and activist, and I am thrilled that Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower was the Onward Book Club’s inaugural selection. Brittney Cooper describes herself as a “teacher, writer, shit talker, feminist, Southerner.” I often describe her as her own weather system, since even descriptions like “force of nature” are not enough. ![]()
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