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Subject(s)

• African American women—Southern States—History—19th century—Sources [Browse]
• Educators—Southern States—19th century—Literary collections [Browse]
• Essayists—Southern States—19th century—Literary collections [Browse]
• Civil rights workers—Southern States—19th century—Literary collections [Browse]
• Southern States—Race relations—Sources [Browse]
• Cooper, Anna J. (Anna Julia) 1858-1964—Correspondence [Browse]

Editor

• Moody-Turner, Shirley [Browse]
• Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. [Browse]

Writer of introduction

• Moody-Turner, Shirley [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Personal correspondence [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• personal correspondence [Browse]

Series

Penguin classics [More in this series]

Summary note

"The Portable Anna Julia Cooper brings together, for the first time, Anna Julia Cooper's major collection of essays, A Voice from the South, along with several previously unpublished poems, plays, journalism and selected correspondences, including over thirty previously unpublished letters between Anna Julia Cooper and W. E. B. Du Bois. The Portable Anna Julia Cooper will introduce a new generation of readers to an educator, public intellectual, and community activist whose prescient insights and eloquent prose underlie some of the most important developments in modern American intellectual thought and African American social and political activism. Recognized as the iconic foremother of Black women's intellectual history and activism, Cooper (1858-1964) penned one of the most forceful and enduring statements of Black feminist thought to come of out of the nineteenth century. Attention to her work has grown exponentially over the years--her words have been memorialized in the US passport and, in 2009, she was commemorated with a US postal stamp. Cooper's writings on the centrality of Black girls and women to our larger national discourse has proved especially prescient in this moment of Black Lives Matter, Say Her Name, and the recent protests that have shaken the nation"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes

Place of publication taken from publisher's website.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Major text
• On Education
• Scrapbook, 1931-1940 : newspaper and other writings
• Correspondences
• Anna Julia Cooper - W.E.B. Du Bois correspondences, 1923-1932
• Personal
• Professional challenges and social commentaries
• National and international networks
• Additional writings.

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ISBN

• 9780143135067 (paperback)
• 0143135066 (paperback)

LCCN

2021051069

OCLC

1260192720

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