Eloquent Rage
by Brittney Cooper
Buy on Amazon"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 [in this memoir] that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting"--Dust jacket flap.
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"Last year, Brittney Cooper wrote an academic history of black women as public intellectuals who fought seemingly unattainable prerequisites for being taken seriously. In Eloquent Rage, Cooper’s stakes are more personal, but the struggle is the same. “Our feminist origin stories matter,” she explains early in this book, which combines memoir and cultural observation as she traces the rocky road toward finding a feminism she can claim for herself. Sociopolitical frameworks can be hard to reconcile with the personal, and Cooper occasionally hits a needle scratch trying, but this book is otherwise smart, engaging and brings a much needed lens to contemporary feminism."
NPR Books We Love — 2018 · apps.npr.org
"It's razor sharp and hilarious. There is so much about her analysis that I relate to and grapple with on a daily basis as a Latina feminist."
By the Book: America Ferrera · nytimes.com