Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower [Paperback]

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Rebecca Solnit,The New Republic: Funny, wrenching, pithy, and pointed.

Roxane Gay: I encourage you to check outEloquent Rageout now.

Joy Reid,Cosmopolitan: A dissertation on black womens pain and possibility.

America Ferrera: Razor sharp and hilarious. 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 worlds best Baptist preacher but with sermons about intersectionality and Beyonc? instead of Ecclesiastes.

Melissa Harris Perry:I was waiting for an author who wouldnt forget, ignore, or erase us black girls...I was waiting and she has come in Brittney Cooper.

Michael Eric Dyson:Cooper may be the boldest young feminist writing today...andshe will make you laugh out loud.

So what if its true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be. 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.

Far too often, Black womens anger has been caricatured into an ugly and destructive force that threatens the civility and social fabric of American democracy. But Cooper shows us that there is more to the story thanlƒF