Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women

by Brittney Cooper

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252082486
• ISBN13: 9780252082481
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.9"