So what if it’s true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be. Michael Eric Dyson: “ Cooper may be the boldest young feminist writing today.and she will make you laugh out loud.” I was waiting and she has come in Brittney Cooper.” Melissa Harris Perry: “I was waiting for an author who wouldn’t forget, ignore, or erase us black girls.
There is so much about her analysis that I relate to and grapple with on a daily basis as a Latina feminist."ĭamon Young: "Like watching the world’s best Baptist preacher but with sermons about intersectionality and Beyoncé instead of Ecclesiastes." Joy Reid, Cosmopolitan: "A dissertation on black women’s pain and possibility."Īmerica Ferrera: "Razor sharp and hilarious. Roxane Gay : "I encourage you to check out Eloquent Rage out now."
Rebecca Solnit, The New Republic: "Funny, wrenching, pithy, and pointed."
Did we have enough drive? Enough vision? Enough hustle to change our condition? The politics of personal empowerment suggests to us that if we simply “free our minds, then our asses will follow.” I’m not convinced that this is true.
It tells us that in a free market, devoid of any regulation or accountability at the top, what happens to those on the bottom is entirely our fault. Neoliberalism is endlessly concerned with “personal responsibility” and individual self-regulation. It’s also a decidedly neoliberal word that places the responsibility for combating systems on individuals.
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