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Beyond respectability : the intellectual thought of race women / Brittney C. Cooper.
Van Pelt Library E185.89.I56 C66 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cooper, Brittney C., 1980- author.
- Series:
- Women, gender, and sexuality in American history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Association of Colored Women (U.S.).
- Terrell, Mary Church, 1863-1954.
- Terrell, Mary Church.
- Murray, Pauli, 1910-1985.
- Murray, Pauli.
- African American women--Intellectual life--19th century.
- African American women.
- African American women--Intellectual life--20th century.
- African American women--Intellectual life.
- African American women--Biography.
- African American intellectuals--Biography.
- African American intellectuals.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 187 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Intellectual thought of race women
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- Beyond 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. Eschewing the Great Race Man paradigm so prominent in contemporary discourse, Brittney C. 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. 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. As Cooper shows, their body of work critically reshaped our understandings of race and gender discourse. It also confronted entrenched ideas of how - and who - produced racial knowledge.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the duty of the true race woman
- Organized anxiety : the National Association of Colored Women and the creation of the black public sphere
- "Proper, dignified agitation" : the evolution of Mary Church Terrell
- Queering Jane Crow : Pauli Murray's quest for an unhyphenated identity
- The problems and possibilities of the Negro woman intellectual
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Cooper, Brittney C., 1980- Beyond respectability.
- ISBN:
- 9780252040993
- 0252040996
- 9780252082481
- 0252082486
- OCLC:
- 962253821
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