A Voice from the South

by Anna Julia Cooper

2020-07-22 00:55:43

Considered one of the original texts foretelling the black feminist movement, this collection of essays, first published in 1892, offers an unparalleled view into the thought of black women writers in nineteenth-century America. A leading black spok... Read more
Considered one of the original texts foretelling the black feminist movement, this collection of essays, first published in 1892, offers an unparalleled view into the thought of black women writers in nineteenth-century America. A leading black spokeswoman of her time, Anna Julia Cooper cameof age during a conservative wave in the black community, a time when men completely dominated African-American intellectual and political ideas. In these essays, Cooper criticizes black men for securing higher education for themselves through the ministry, while erecting roadblocks to deny womenaccess to those same opportunities, and denounces the elitism and provinciality of the white women''s movement. Passionately committed to women''s independence, Cooper espoused higher education as the essential key to ending women''s physical, emotional, and economic dependence on men. Less

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File size7.9x5x0.5inches
Print pages160
PublisherDover Publications
Publication date August 1, 2016
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780486805634

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