![]() Subject headings Cooper, Brittney C., 1980- Cooper, Brittney C.,-1980- African American feminists- Biography. I was waiting for an author who wouldn’t forget, ignore, or erase us black girls as they told their own story and that of the race and the. Cooper reminds us that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting. Rigorous, honest, heartfelt, compassionate, and challenging. So what if it's true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be. It reminds women that they don't have to settle for less. Too often Black women's anger is portrayed as an ugly and destructive force, but an eloquent rage keeps us all honest and accountable. These times demand the fierce honesty of Brittney Cooper, who reminds us that ultimately feminism, friendship, and faith in one's own superpowers are all we really need to turn things right-side up again."-Dust jacket. Eloquent Rage, in that sense, is just as aptly in league with world-shaking works such as Audre Lorde’s The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism and bell hooks’s Killing Rage: Ending Racism. ![]() In Brittney Cooper's world, neither mean girls nor fuckboys ever win. Brittney Cooper encourages all Black women to embrace their rightful rage and use it as a tool, calling this practice eloquent rage. 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. she unravels a whole web of secrets in this eloquent, affecting verse novel for 9+. Eloquent rage keeps us all honest and accountable. 2 hours ago &0183 &32 The Rage of the Sea Witch by Roland Chambers, Zephyr, £7.99. It's what makes Beyoncé's girl power anthems resonate so hard. Cooper, a professor of women’s and gender studies and Africana studies at Rutgers University, continued her eloquent rage in an interview for my podcast Cape Up. 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. Yet 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. This was often activated by the vocabulary of rape: Indigenous, colonised and enslaved men were maimed and killed after allegations made by bourgeois white women ( Ware, 1992. 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. White supremacy produces both white tears and white rage, and colonialism relied on a circuit between bourgeois white women’s tears and white men’s punitive power. "So what if it's true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be. 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. she unravels a whole web of secrets in this eloquent, affecting verse novel for 9+. Eloquent Rage performs vulnerability as part of a willingness to entrust the larger public with what is often held to be private. TitleĮloquent rage : a black feminist discovers her superpower / Brittney Cooper. 2 hours ago &0183 &32 The Rage of the Sea Witch by Roland Chambers, Zephyr, £7.99. Better yet, we must quit settling for one when what we really need is the other.Request This Author Cooper, Brittney C., 1980- author. Empowerment and power are not the same thing. 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. Cooper writes about a wide range of cultural, personal, and political topics. 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. 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. Eloquent Rage is an essay collection that centers Black feminism and Black women. Eloquent rage keeps us all honest and accountable. 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. Neoliberalism is endlessly concerned with “personal responsibility” and individual self-regulation. It’s also a decidedly neoliberal word that places the responsibility for combating systems on individuals.
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