![]() Her critique is sharp, her love of Black people and Black culture is deep, and she will make you laugh out loud. "Cooper may be the boldest young feminist writing today. Her critique is sharp, her love of Black people and Black culture is deep, and she will make you laugh out loud." - Michael Eric Dyson "I was waiting for an author who wouldn't forget, ignore, or erase us black girls as they told their own story.I was waiting and she has come-in Brittney Cooper." - Melissa Harris Perry This audiobook argues that ultimately feminism, friendship, and faith in one's own superpowers are all we really need to turn things right side up again. In Brittney Cooper's world, neither mean girls nor fuckboys ever win. The Booksmith is thrilled to welcome Brittney Cooper to The Bindery to read from and discuss Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower. 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. The two discuss her book, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower. It reminds women that they don't have to settle for less. Assistant Professor, activist and cultural critic, Brittney Cooper. ![]() It's what makes Michelle Obama an icon.Įloquent rage keeps us all honest and accountable. It reminds women that they don’t have to settle for less. 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. ![]() With searing honesty, intimacy and humor too, America's leading young black feminist celebrates the power of rage in this piercing new audiobook. Listeners learn how rage, aimed with fine-tuned focus and purpose, can help build up black women's lives and society overall." - AudioFile Magazine She blends candor and humor as she roots out toxic behaviors and beliefs we use in America to tear ourselves and each other down, while also offering paths forward. (Feb.".Cooper delivers a frank, conversational-style examination of the importance of black female friendships, respectability politics, and harmful stereotypes, among other topics. Cooper By Brittney Cooper Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (Hardcover)2018by Brittney Cooper (Author) (Hardcover) 1,432 ratings Kindle 0.00 Read with Kindle Unlimited to also enjoy access to over 1 million more titles 11.99 to buy Audiobook 0. In these provocative essays, Cooper is both candid and vulnerable, and unwilling to suffer fools. Cooper also cleverly uses Michelle Obama’s hair to craft an artful censure of respectability politics and discusses Beyoncé as a cultural symbol of black female solidarity. Cooper is at her best and most inflammatory in an essay titled “White Girl Tears,” in which she bulldozes white feminists for cultural appropriation and failing to “come get their people” during the 2016 presidential election. Elsewhere in the collection, the author explores her own identity as a black, Southern, Christian feminist and the ways in which personal politics can become incongruous, and she openly admits her own privilege. In the essay “The Smartest Man I Never Knew,” Cooper uses the story of the attempted murder of Cooper’s mother (while she was pregnant with Cooper) by her mother’s jealous boyfriend as an example of American culture’s toxic masculinity. Many of the essays are deeply personal, with Cooper using her own experiences as springboards to larger concerns. Cooper, Cosmopolitan contributor and cofounder of the Crunk Feminist Collective blog, provides incisive commentary in this collection of essays about the issues facing black feminists in what she sees as an increasingly retrograde society.
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