Eloquent Rage

"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."

"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."