Women heretofore known as activists rather than thinkers. History, Brittney Cooper weaves together the ideas and lived experiences of "At the cutting edge of black women's intellectual Cooper is an assistant professor of women's and It also confronted entrenched ideas of how-and who-produced racial knowledge.īrittney C. As Cooper shows, their body of work critically reshaped our understandings of race and gender discourse. Cooper delves into the processes that transformed these women and others into racial leadership figures, including long-overdue discussions of their theoretical output and personal experiences. Cooper looks at the far-reaching intellectual achievements of female thinkers and activists like Anna Julia Cooper, Mary Church Terrell, Fannie Barrier Williams, Pauli Murray, and Tony Cade Bambara. Eschewing the Great Race Man paradigm so prominent in contemporary discourse, Brittney C. Work challenged thinking on racial issues as well as questions about gender,īeyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the 1800s through the Black Power era of the 1970s. Nineteenth century, a group of publicly active African American women emergedįrom the social and educational elite to assume racial leadership roles.
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