![]() ![]() " Beyond Respectability can be read as a brilliant critique to academia's superficial engagements with gender and race theory." - Women's Studies International Forum It should be a required text in African American studies, gender studies, feminist philosophy, and literary studies, amongothers."- Hypatia Reviews This book is an intellectually stimulating must-read for individuals interested in, but not limited to, black feminism and black intellectual thought. "One of the best books written on black women's intellectual traditions thus far. Cooper's willingness to share how race women intellectuals are the reason why scholars can write of Black women thinkers' contributions today."- Women's History Review ![]() " Beyond Respectability is a memorable narrative of struggle and triumph. "By moving 'beyond respectability,' Cooper's black feminist thought takes us into the constructive possibility that has marked so many black women's lives."- Christian Century There's something in Beyond Respectability for every race woman- and for the activist, the herstorian, the public intellectual, and the student, and all guardians of our nation's honest history."- Women's Review of Books " Beyond Respectability is a multifaceted and robust record of women's important work. This is a valuable contribution to the whole."- Journal of American History " Beyond Respectability is one small part of a much larger picture. "Cooper's study demands that we dive deeper into the intellectual artifacts left by black women thinkers as a means of supporting the evolution of black feminist discourse and political action."- Public Books " Beyond Respectability is an invigorating testament to the pivotal legacies of changemakers like Pauli Murray, Anna Julia Cooper, and Mary Church Terrell and why the intellectual work of black women cannot and will not be forgotten."- Signature Cooper's sophisticated analysis not only recovers the intellectual proficiency of race women, but also emphasizes the embodied nature of public intellectualism."- Antipode " Beyond Respectability is an intricate temporal and spatial tapestry that weaves together the development and evolution of black feminist thought. "If black women's history is your thing, Beyond Respectability should definitely be on your reading list."- Bitch Reviews"A work of crucial cultural study. lays out the complicated history of black woman as intellectual force, making clear how much work she has done simply to bring that category into existence."- NPR Cooper's work, meanwhile, confronts entrenched ideas of how-and who-produced racial knowledge. 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 Toni Cade Bambara. Eschewing the Great Race Man paradigm so prominent in contemporary discourse, Brittney C. Their work challenged thinking on racial issues as well as questions about gender, sexuality, and class.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. About the BookIn the late nineteenth century, a group of publicly active African American women emerged from the social and educational elite to assume racial leadership roles. ![]()
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