![]() Lots of provocative, intelligent thinking and engagement with blackness, popular culture, black womanhood, respectability politics, and the uses of, as the title suggests, eloquent rage. At times, some of the essays felt a bit long and circuitous but Cooper is such an interesting writer and thinker that An excellent essay collection that explicitly centers black women and black women's feminism. I really enjoyed how black womanhood remained the focal point of these essays from beginning to end. This book argues that ultimately feminism, friendship, and faith in one's own superpowers are all we really need to turn things right side up again.moreĪn excellent essay collection that explicitly centers black women and black women's feminism. 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. Far 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. ![]()
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