Description An Emma Watson "Our Shared Shelf" Selection for November/December 2018 - NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018/ MENTIONED BY: The New York Public Library - Mashable - The Atlantic - Bustle - The Root - NPR - Fast Company ("10 Best Books for Battling Your Sexist Workplace") - The Guardian ("Top 10 Books About Angry Women") Rebecca Solnit, The New Republic: "Funny, wrenching, pithy, and pointed." Roxane Gay " I encourage you to check out Eloquent Rage out now." Joy Reid, Cosmopolitan "A dissertation on Black women\'s pain and possibility." America Ferrera: "Razor sharp and hilarious.
In 2017, she was named to The Root 100 List, and in 2018, to the Essence Woke 100 List..
A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY: Glamour - Chicago Reader - Bustle - Autostraddle About the Author Brittney Cooper is a professor of Women\'s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University, she cofounded the Crunk Collective, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Ebony, and The Root , among many others.
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.
But homegirls emerge as heroes.
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.
Eloquent rage keeps us all honest and accountable.
It\'s what makes Michelle Obama an icon.
It\'s what makes Beyonc \'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.
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. and she will make you laugh out loud ." So what if it\'s true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be.
I was waiting and she has come in Brittney Cooper ." Michael Eric Dyson: " Cooper may be the boldest young Feminist writing today...
There is so much about her analysis that I relate to and grapple with on a daily basis as a Latina feminist." Damon Young: "Like watching the world\'s best Baptist preacher but with sermons about intersectionality and Beyonc instead of Ecclesiastes." Melissa Harris Perry: "I was waiting for an author who wouldn\'t forget, ignore, or erase us Black girls...
Description An Emma Watson "Our Shared Shelf" Selection for November/December 2018 - NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018/ MENTIONED BY: The New York Public Library - Mashable - The Atlantic - Bustle - The Root - NPR - Fast Company ("10 Best Books for Battling Your Sexist Workplace") - The Guardian ("Top 10 Books About Angry Women") Rebecca Solnit, The New Republic: "Funny, wrenching, pithy, and pointed." Roxane Gay " I encourage you to check out Eloquent Rage out now." Joy Reid, Cosmopolitan "A dissertation on Black women\'s pain and possibility." America Ferrera: "Razor sharp and hilarious
