Her work is the most rigorous, honest, heartfelt, compassionate, and challenging of any cultural critic out there because she does not shy away from the areas of black life too long considered taboo. "Brittney Cooper is not just one of the leading black feminist public intellectuals of the day, she is the Black Feminist Prophet we urgently need. "Cooper personifies what Sonia Sanchez called 'homegirl and hand-grenade'-here, like the homegirl she is, Cooper gives us the uncensored truth about how America has become what it is today, and reminds us in no uncertain terms that Black people, and particularly Black women, have the brilliance, foresight, and vision to bring a different America to fruition, should we choose to use our powers for good rather than evil." -Alicia Garza, Special Projects Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance and Co-Founder, Black Lives Matter " words resonate beyond the limit of the page her call carries forth indefinitely." -Mark Anthony Neal There is so much about her analysis that I relate to and grapple with on a daily basis as a Latina feminist." -America Ferrera this force of nature is becoming one of our fiercest voices in the new generation of African-American thinkers." - Essence That’s how long it took for me to realize that everything I planned to say and every point I’d try to make, Brittney could say better and more powerfully, and somehow more succinctly and more descriptively." -Damon Young, The Root Within the first five minutes of the conversation, I wanted to get up and take a seat in the audience. " were part of a panel at Harvard on race and the media (Panama Jackson and Kimberly Foster from For Harrietwere also there).
Cooper gives us hope, reminding us that we can be powerful and we don’t have to settle for less." - Signature
"A powerful examination of Black women’s anger, the cost for Black women who choose to be angry, and how all of this is rooted in misogynoir-or, racist and sexist oppression. " ardent book reminds us that what you build is infinitely more important than what you tear down-and that rage makes great mortar." - Ms. a for-us-by-us handbook tailor made to obliterate the idea of post-racialism in the Trump era." - Bust Magazine "With straight-up vulnerability and humor sprinkled in, Cooper reminds readers that feminism, in essence, is about loving women. "A dissertation on black women’s pain and possibility an autobiography of a black woman’s complicated dance with feminism, overcoming otherness as a big black girl in a skinny-white-girl world, her mother’s triumph over violence, and her own journey from disappointment to black joy." -Joy Reid, Cosmopolitan It was an inspiration to me." -Rebecca Traister, The Cut forceful and smart and joyous all at once. " proud, energetic reclamation of anger, via memoir and pop cultural analysis. " is distinct both for its telling as the author’s own journey and for its-yes-eloquent personal voice, which, between her erudition (she is a professor at Rutgers) and her command of vernacular, is funny, wrenching, pithy, and pointed." -Rebecca Solnit, The New Republic "Eloquent Rage follows in the line of classics in the genre." - The New York Times This book argues that ultimately feminism, friendship, and faith in one’s own superpowers are all we really need to turn things right side up again. In Brittney Cooper’s world, neither mean girls nor fuckboys ever win. And it took another intervention, this time staged by one of her homegirls, to turn Cooper into the fierce feminist she is today. When Cooper learned of her grandmother’s eloquent rage about love, sex, and marriage in an epic and hilarious front-porch confrontation, her life was changed. It reminds women that they don’t have to settle for less. Eloquent rage keeps us all honest and accountable.
It’s what makes Beyoncé’s girl power anthems resonate so hard. Black women’s eloquent rage is what makes Serena Williams such a powerful tennis player. But in the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper shows us that there is more to the story than that.
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