Eloquent Rage - A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

List of contents

CONTENTS

The Problem with Sass 1
Capital B, Capital 9
Strong Female Leads 39
The Smartest Man I Never Knew 69
Bag Lady 99
Grown-Woman Theology 125
Orchestrated Fury 147
White-Girl Tears 171
Never Scared 201
Love in a Hopeless Place 221
Favor Ain't Fair 247
Joy 273

Acknowledgments 277

About the author

Brittney Cooper writes a popular monthly column on race, gender, and politics for Cosmopolitan. A professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University, she co-founded the Crunk Feminist Collective, and her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Ebony.com, and The Root.com, among many others. In 2017, she was named to The Root 100 List, and in 2018, to the Essence Woke 100 List.

Summary

So what if it’s true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Brittney Cooper
• Publisher: Picador Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.03.2019
• EAN: 9781250112880
• ISBN: 978-1-250-11288-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 208 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 241 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories