| Description |
xvii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
MyiLibrary.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-224) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: "a woman of rare courage and conviction" -- "A little more than ordinary interest in the underprivileged": Cooper's lifelong commitment to liberation -- "Life must be something more than dilettante speculation": Cooper's multidimensional praxis -- "If you object to imaginary lines--don't draw them!": Cooper's border-crossing methods -- "Failing at the most essential provision of the revolutionary ideal": lessons from France and Haiti's transatlantic struggle over abolition and égalité -- Mapping sites of power: Cooper's redefinition of "the philosophic mind" -- Tracing resistant legacies, rethinking intellectual genealogies: reflections on Cooper's Black feminist theorizing -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
| Summary |
Born into slavery in 1858, Anna Julia Cooper was a renowned scholar, educator, and activist who called for critical consciousness and collective action on the part of all marginalized people. Rejecting notions that Cooper was an elitist duped by dominant ideologies, Vivian M. May examines Cooper's visionary politics and defiant philosophy to reveal her radical methodology of dissent. May explores Cooper's extraordinary life and writings on subjects as wide-ranging as capitalism and slavery, the Haitian revolution, Black feminism, and Pan-Africanism, showing how, across six decades of work, Cooper helped to lay the foundations of modern-day race and gender studies. -- From publisher's description. |
| Subject |
Cooper, Anna J. (Anna Julia), 1858-1964.
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Feminist theory.
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African American philosophy.
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| ISBN |
9780415956420 (alk. paper) |
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0415956420 (alk. paper) |
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9780415956437 (alk. paper) |
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0415956439 (alk. paper) |
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