In Brittney Cooper's world, neither mean girls nor fuckboys ever win. And it took another intervention, this time staged by one of her homegirls, to turn Brittney into the fierce feminist she is today. When Cooper learned of her grandmother's eloquent rage about love, sex, and marriage in an epic and hilarious front-porch confrontation, her life was changed. It reminds women that they don't have to settle for less. It's what makes Michelle Obama an icon.Įloquent rage keeps us all honest and accountable. It's what makes Beyoncé's girl power anthems resonate so hard. Black women's eloquent rage is what makes Serena Williams such a powerful tennis player. But Cooper shows us that there is more to the story than that. In the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper reminds us that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting.įar too often, Black women's anger has been caricatured into an ugly and destructive force that threatens the civility and social fabric of American democracy. So what if it's true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be. With searing honesty, intimacy and humor too, America's leading young black feminist celebrates the power of rage in this piercing new audiobook. Listeners learn how rage, aimed with fine-tuned focus and purpose, can help build up black women's lives and society overall.' - AudioFile Magazine She blends candor and humor as she roots out toxic behaviors and beliefs we use in America to tear ourselves and each other down, while also offering paths forward. Cooper shows us that there is more to the story – eloquent rage is what keeps us all honest and accountable, and reminds women everywhere that they don’t have to settle for less.'.Cooper delivers a frank, conversational-style examination of the importance of black female friendships, respectability politics, and harmful stereotypes, among other topics. But far too often, Black women’s anger is caricatured as ugly and destructive, a threat to the social fabric of civil society. #SFUHISTREADS 2022: Reading ELOQUENT RAGE by BRITTNEY COOPERĪbstract: Anger is a powerful emotion that can allow us to keep fighting.

This year, they will be reading Eloquent Rage (MacMillan, 2018), by author, professor, activist, and cultural critic Brittney Cooper, and, along with their panel of experts and scholars, examining the book in its historical context.

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