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. She has laid out what I like to think of an idiots guide to the. In Brittney Cooper’s world, neither mean girls nor fuckboys ever win. I laughed, I cried, I learned, and I raged along with Ms. 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. 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. Rather than thinking about anger as an emotion we should attempt to quell or suppress, that anger is the. Black women’s eloquent rage is what makes Serena Williams such a powerful tennis player. Eloquent rage is a way to think about black women’s anger as a political response. But Cooper shows us that there is more to the story than that. 185) Again, the danger Black people face by simply driving a car is disgraceful.
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. Cooper’s deep dive into white fear includes a review of a case, new to me, of Betty Shelby, a white police officer in Tulsa, Oklahoma who shot and killed Terrence Crutcher, a forty-year-old unarmed black man, during a traffic stop. So what if it’s true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be. 1 In 20, she was named to the s Root 100, an annual list of top Black influencers. Her areas of research and work include black women organizations, black women intellectuals, and hip-hop feminism. Michael Eric Dyson: “ Cooper may be the boldest young feminist writing today.and she will make you laugh out loud.” Brittney Cooper is a tenured professor of Women and Gender Studies, author, professor, activist, and cultural critic.
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. Joy Reid, Cosmopolitan: "A dissertation on black women’s pain and possibility."ĭamon Young: "Like watching the world’s best Baptist preacher but with sermons about intersectionality and Beyoncé instead of Ecclesiastes." Roxane Gay : "I encourage you to check out Eloquent Rage out now."
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