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. Roxane Gay: I encourage you to check out Eloquent Rage out now. Many of the essays are deeply personal, with Cooper using her own experiences as springboards to larger concerns. Rebecca Solnit,The New Republic: Funny, wrenching, pithy, and pointed. In the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper reminds us. Acknowledged authors Cooper, Brittney wrote Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower comprising 288 pages back in 2018. Better yet, we must quit settling for one when what we really need is the other.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. So what if its true that Black women are mad as hell They have the right to be.

Empowerment and power are not the same thing. eloquent ebook epub download encountered orantmann99 Create successful ePaper yourself Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software. In the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper remi. Why? Have you ever noticed that people who have real “power”-wealth, job security, influence-don’t attend “empowerment” seminars? Power is not attained from books and seminars. So what if its true that Black women are mad as hell They have the right to be. Did we have enough drive? Enough vision? Enough hustle to change our condition? The politics of personal empowerment suggests to us that if we simply “free our minds, then our asses will follow.” I’m not convinced that this is true. It tells us that in a free market, devoid of any regulation or accountability at the top, what happens to those on the bottom is entirely our fault.

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