Specifically, it focused her on the “knowing” that black women often seem to possess, a knowledge exclusive of advanced degrees and often perceived as anti-intellectualism. In Brittney Cooper's world, neither mean girls norfuckboys ever win. This book is just so good." For Cooper as both an epistemologist and a black feminist, exploring this knowing is central to her work: I wanted to know, how did my grandmama know? Eloquent Rage is as exhilarating as it is vulnerable, a crucial book that tackles friendship and feminism, Hillary Clinton and Sandra Bland, violence and family, sex and faith and race and gender, all with vibrant grace and honesty.
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.Far too often, Black women’s anger has been … More…, NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An Emma Watson "Our Shared Shelf" Selection for November/December 2018 • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018/ MENTIONED BY: The New York Public Library • Mashable • The Atlantic • Bustle • The Root • Politico Magazine ("What the 2020 Candidates Are Reading This Summer") • NPR • Fast Company ("10 Best Books for Battling Your Sexist Workplace") • The Guardian ("Top 10 Books About Angry Women") Rebecca Solnit, The New Republic: "Funny, wrenching, pithy, and pointed. And it took another intervention, this time staged by one of her homegirls, to turn Brittney into the fierce feminist she is today. THE PROBLEM WITH SASSThis is a book by a grown-ass woman written for other grown-ass women. "Joy Reid, Cosmopolitan: "A dissertation on black women’s pain and possibility. US$13.95, US$54.90
US$24.99, US$21.56 And it took another intervention, this time staged by one of her homegirls, to turn Brittney into the fierce feminist she is today. I was waiting and she has come—in Brittney Cooper.” —Melissa Harris Perry“Cooper may be the boldest young feminist writing today. Because there’s this stereotype that dogs so many of us that we’re “angry.” We get accused of being angry even when we’re not, and we’re just sort of going about our lives. That should always be the fundamental opening question. US$18.08, US$23.47 US$14.95, US$11.65 "Damon Young: "Like watching the world’s best Baptist preacher but with sermons about intersectionality and Beyoncé instead of Ecclesiastes." US$18.95, US$15.24
| 240g, The New Jim Crow (10th Anniversary Edition), The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings, Gender, Athletes' Rights, and the Court of Arbitration for Sport, Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Vintage Feminism Short Edition). They have the right to be. [But] I’m not interested at all in the sort of like, “We hate white girls” version of black feminism that is real hot right now.
When we speak on the phone, Cooper’s cadence is equally genuine as we chat about life at the intersection of being black, female, feminist and uncomfortably aware of how frequently undervalued we are. Available. 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. Cooper is a generous writer, affording even those she rages against good humored compassion, but never letting any of us fully off the hook. US$27.00, US$14.95
She warns against both a black feminism that is reactive and the inherent danger of needing to be “right,” risking becoming the very thing we claim to hate. 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.A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY: Glamour • Chicago Reader • Bustle • Autostraddle.
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including her feelings about Beyoncé, Hillary Clinton and black queer women; to whom she feels black feminism owes a tremendous debt: Wait are you saying that she’s saying that black feminism owes debt to Hillary Clinton and Beyonce? It's what makes Michelle Obama an icon. US$21.96, US$17.85 NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An Emma Watson "Our Shared Shelf" Selection for November/December 2018 • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018/ MENTIONED BY: The New York Public Library • Mashable • The Atlantic • Bustle • The Root • Politico Magazine ("What the 2020 Candidates Are Reading This Summer") • NPR • Fast Company ("10 Best Books for Battling Your Sexist Workplace") • The Guardian ("Top 10 Books About Angry Women") Rebecca Solnit, The New Republic: "Funny, wrenching, pithy, and pointed. They have the right to be. I’m clear about what the limitations of a white feminist project are because so much of white women’s feminism has been about their proximity to white men, and wanting to have what white men have. If you don’t really love and are not really committed to being in struggle in ways that help everybody to live better, and live more fully, then you’re not doing shit. 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. As she was writing, Cooper says, she felt the presence and guidance of her late grandmother. But Cooper shows us that there is more to the story than that. “The way I always justified it is, ‘I feel crazy,’” she admits. Eloquent Rage is as exhilarating as it is vulnerable, a crucial book that tackles friendship and feminism, Hillary Clinton and Sandra Bland, violence and family, sex and faith and race and gender, all with vibrant grace and honesty. It’s what makes Beyoncé’s girl power anthems resonate so hard. US$12.91, US$19.65 And black women are the only folks I can see—except maybe indigenous people—[who say,] “Look, we don’t have gender privilege, we don’t have race privilege; and that means that our freedom project around those things is not defined by what white men do or have or want.” Like, none of it. 2 thoughts on “My Favorite Quotes from Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper!” Allyson says: August 4, 2020 at 12:09 am Fantastic written Mate!