Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist

In this book, Vivian M. May explores the theoretical and political contributions of Anna Julia Cooper, a renowned Black feminist scholar, educator and activist whose ideas deserve far more attention than they have received.

Zusatztext May has written the first book to really situate Cooper as a radical intellectual. She elucidates not only Cooper's brilliant critique of racism and sexism! but her cross-disciplinary analysis of literature! education! religion! law and American culture. Most importantly! May establishes Cooper's philosophy of liberation-one that is global! historically grounded! passionate! and lived. From now on! anyone teaching 20th century intellectual history must come to terms with Anna Julia Cooper. -Robin D. G. Kelley! Columbia University! author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination"May persuasively argues that Cooper's philosophical ideas are much more revolutionary-radical even-and subversive of dominant ideology than previously judged. This book will become central to the scholarship on 19th and early 20th century African American women writers." -Trudier Harris! UNC Chapel Hill! author of Saints! Sinners! Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature "May places Cooper in a rich political! philosophical and literary context in which her prescient work can at long last be fully appreciated. She enables readers to understand just how and why Cooper might have been misunderstood! and links such misunderstanding with some of the very political constraints under which Cooper labored. This promises to be the kind of book about which people will say! 'Wow! How can we have missed out on all this?'" -Elizabeth V. Spelman! Smith College! author of Fruits of Sorrow: Framing Our Attention to Suffering"May has accomplished a major feat: she has given one of the greatest philosophical and political thinkers of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century her intellectual due." -- African American Review Informationen zum Autor Authored by May, Vivian M. Klappentext In this book, Vivian M. May explores the theoretical and political contributions of Anna Julia Cooper, a renowned Black feminist scholar, educator and activist whose ideas deserve far more attention than they have received. Zusammenfassung In this book, Vivian M. May explores the theoretical and political contributions of Anna Julia Cooper, a renowned Black feminist scholar, educator and activist whose ideas deserve far more attention than they have received. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: 'A Woman of Rare Courage and Conviction' 1. 'A Little More than Ordinary Interest in the Underprivileged': Cooper's Lifelong Commitment to Liberation 2. 'Life Must be Something more than Dilettante Speculation': Cooper's Multidimensional Praxis 3. 'If you Object to Imaginary Lines - Don't Draw them!': Cooper's Border-crossing Methods 4. 'Failing at the Most Essential Provision of the Revolutionary Ideal': Lessons from France and Haiti's Transatlantic Struggle over Abolition and Égalité 5. Mapping Sites of Power: Cooper's Redefinition of 'the Philosophic Mind' 6. Tracing Resistant Legacies, Rethinking Intellectual Genealogies: Reflections on Cooper's Black Feminist Theorizing ...

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Authored by May, Vivian M.

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Introduction: 'A Woman of Rare Courage and Conviction' 1. 'A Little More than Ordinary Interest in the Underprivileged': Cooper's Lifelong Commitment to Liberation 2. 'Life Must be Something more than Dilettante Speculation': Cooper's Multidimensional Praxis 3. 'If you Object to Imaginary Lines - Don't Draw them!': Cooper's Border-crossing Methods 4. 'Failing at the Most Essential Provision of the Revolutionary Ideal': Lessons from France and Haiti's Transatlantic Struggle over Abolition and Égalité 5. Mapping Sites of Power: Cooper's Redefinition of 'the Philosophic Mind' 6. Tracing Resistant Legacies, Rethinking Intellectual Genealogies: Reflections on Cooper's Black Feminist Theorizing