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. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower: Cooper, Brittney: 9781250112880: Books - Amazon.ca. 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 "Cooper may be the boldest young feminist writing today. "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. This explains why the author of Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower was aboil last week over the. And it took another intervention, this time staged by one of her homegirls, to turn Brittney into the fierce feminist she is today. I do some of my best writing when I’m angry, says Brittney Cooper. 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. It reminds women that they don't have to settle for less.
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. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper is a popular book with reading groups and is on the Following 1 Book Club(s). 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. More often than not, we keep learning that white rage and white fear are dishonest impulses that lead us toward fascism. 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.".Cooper delivers a frank, conversational-style examination of the importance of black female friendships, respectability politics, and harmful stereotypes, among other topics. Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower 4 likes Like The lie we are told is that white rage and white fear are honest emotions that preserve the integrity of American democracy. 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.
It reminds women that they don’t have to settle for less. 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. Brittney Cooper is a cultural theorist, author and professor. 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. Brittney Cooper’s black-girl magic for grown-ass women In Eloquent Rage, Professor Crunk offers a course on black feminism and the importance of Beyoncé.
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