Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

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NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY: Glamour • Chicago Reader • Bustle • Autostraddle

Joy Reid, Cosmopolitan: “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.”

Melissa Harris Perry says: “I used to be waiting for an writer who wouldn’t disregard, ignore, or erase us black girls as they told their own story…I used to be waiting and she has come―in Brittney Cooper.”

Michael Eric Dyson says: “Cooper may be the boldest young feminist writing today. Her critique is sharp, her love of Black people and Black culture is deep, and she will make you laugh out loud.”

Rebecca Traister says: “Brittney Cooper is a national treasure.”

Mychal Denzel Smith says: “Brittney Cooper is the Black Feminist Prophet we urgently need.”

So what if it’s true that Black women are mad as hell? They’ve the right to be. In the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper reminds us that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting.

Far too regularly, Black women’s anger has been caricatured into an ugly and destructive force that threatens the civility and social fabric of American democracy. But Cooper shows us that there is more to the story than that. Black women’s eloquent rage is what makes Serena Williams any such powerful tennis player. It’s what makes Beyoncé’s girl power anthems resonate so hard. It’s what makes Michelle Obama an icon.

Eloquent rage keeps us all honest and accountable. It reminds women that they don’t have to settle for less. When Cooper learned of her grandmother’s eloquent rage about love, sex, and marriage in an epic and hilarious front-porch confrontation, her life used to be changed. And it took another intervention, this time staged by one of her homegirls, to turn Brittney into the fierce feminist she is today. In Brittney Cooper’s world, neither mean girls nor fuckboys ever win. But homegirls emerge as heroes. This book argues that in the long run feminism, friendship, and faith in one’s own superpowers are all we in point of fact wish to turn things right side up again.

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