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Beyond respectability : the intellectual thought of race women / Brittney C. Cooper.
Author
Cooper, Brittney C., 1980-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Description
1 online resource
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Subject(s)
African American women
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Intellectual life
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19th century
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African American women
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Intellectual life
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20th century
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African American women
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Biography
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African American intellectuals
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Biography
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National Association of Colored Women (U.S.)
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Terrell, Mary Church 1863-1954
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Murray, Pauli 1910-1985
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Series
Women, gender, and sexuality in American history
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Summary note
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
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Intellectual thought of race women
ISBN
9780252099540 ((ebook))
0252099540
LCCN
2017013221
OCLC
978295650
Other standard number
99975890841
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Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage.
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