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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,…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2017University of Illinois Press · 187 pages · 9780252040993
Intellectual lifeAfrican American womenBiographyAfrican American intellectualsTerrell, mary church, 1863-1954African americans, intellectual lifeHISTORY / United States / 20th CenturySOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies