Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist: A Critical Introduction
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Cooper lived years, during which time she pursued multiple careers, making profound contributions to intellectual history, educational theory and praxis, and social and political theory. From to Cooper attended St. That same year she married George Cooper, who died just two years later. Cooper never remarried, but raised, at various stages in her life, two foster and five adopted children.


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Throughout the s Cooper rose to prominence as a celebrated educator, orator, scholar, and community activist, addressing audiences at numerous national and international conferences and conventions. During this time, Cooper published the work she is most known for: In the text, Cooper delivered an incisive critique of patriarchal power, white supremacy and domination, and imperialist expansion, while arguing for an intersectional, situated analysis of racialized sexism and sexualized racism.

She spent from to teaching at Lincoln Institute in Missouri before returning to M Street where she taught until her retirement in During this time, Cooper studied at La Guilde Internationale, Paris, and enrolled from to as a doctoral student at Columbia University.

Introduction

In Cooper assumed the presidency of Frelinghuysen University, a collection of community schools for working-class African Americans, and remained active with the school until at least Through efforts mainly of black feminist scholars, Cooper is now regarded as one of the most important black women intellectuals of the late 19th and early 20th century.

Cooper died in Washington, DC, on 27 February at the age of Lemert predates May and provides an important review and assessment of earlier criticism on Cooper.

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Edited by Charles Lemert and Esme Bhan, 1— For the most extensive and up-to-date bibliography on Cooper, see May. Only recently have African American philosophers taken seriously the work of Cooper; see especial- ly Tommy L.

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Visions of Black Women in Literature. A Voice from the South: By A Black Woman of the South. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Slavery and the French Revolutionists, Edwin Mellen P, From Slavery to the Sorbonne and Beyond: Gates, Henry Louis Jr. In Her Own Write.

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When and Where I Enter: Harley, Sharon, and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, eds. Uplifting the Women and the Race: Lemert, Charles, and Esme Bhan, eds.

Rowman and Littlefield, Black Women in White America: A Voice from the South xxvii-liv. Remember me on this computer.

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