Brittney C Cooper
Biographic Data
| ID | 215681 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brittney C Cooper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brittney C |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooper |
| SIGNATURE | COOPER B C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Problems and Possibilities of the Negro Woman Intellectual
This chapter returns to the question of what it means to be a Black woman intellectual by interrogating the claims in an article in Ebony Magazine in 1966 called “Problems of the Negro Woman Intellectual.” Given the ferment of racial crises in the 1960s, this chapter argues that much like the transitional period of the 1890s, the transition from Civil Rights to Black Power was marked by a tension over the roles that Black women would play, not on…
Beyond Respectability
In the late nineteenth century, a group of publicly active African American women emerged from the social and educational elite to assume racial leadership roles. Their work challenged thinking on racial issues as well as questions about gender, sexuality, and class. 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 er…
Love No Limit
“We can be, but someone else gets to tell us what we mean.”– Anne DuCille (1994)1 I have decided to start with the past in this inquiry because it is not at all clear to me that Black feminism has
The Stage Hip-Hop Feminism Built
This new directions essay traces the most recent trajectory in the field of hip-hop feminism. To that end, we map the current terrain of hip-hop feminist studies, first by identifying challenges and tensions, then by reviewing current literature and its engagement with these issues, and finally by identifying new and emergent areas for further development of the field. We argue that hip-hop feminism has effectively made space for itself in the br…
All the women are White, all the Blacks are men, but some of us are brave
Love No Limit
“We can be, but someone else gets to tell us what we mean.”– Anne DuCille (1994)1 I have decided to start with the past in this inquiry because it is not at all clear to me that Black feminism has
All the women are White, all the Blacks are men, but some of us are brave
The Stage Hip-Hop Feminism Built
This new directions essay traces the most recent trajectory in the field of hip-hop feminism. To that end, we map the current terrain of hip-hop feminist studies, first by identifying challenges and tensions, then by reviewing current literature and its engagement with these issues, and finally by identifying new and emergent areas for further development of the field. We argue that hip-hop feminism has effectively made space for itself in the br…
Love No Limit
“We can be, but someone else gets to tell us what we mean.”– Anne DuCille (1994)1 I have decided to start with the past in this inquiry because it is not at all clear to me that Black feminism has
Beyond Respectability
In the late nineteenth century, a group of publicly active African American women emerged from the social and educational elite to assume racial leadership roles. Their work challenged thinking on racial issues as well as questions about gender, sexuality, and class. 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 er…
The Problems and Possibilities of the Negro Woman Intellectual
This chapter returns to the question of what it means to be a Black woman intellectual by interrogating the claims in an article in Ebony Magazine in 1966 called “Problems of the Negro Woman Intellectual.” Given the ferment of racial crises in the 1960s, this chapter argues that much like the transitional period of the 1890s, the transition from Civil Rights to Black Power was marked by a tension over the roles that Black women would play, not on…
Gender Studies (4 works) · Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · African American women (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Feminism (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Period (music) (2 works) · Political science (2 works)