num_pages: 592
description: A collection of essential writings from the iconic foremother of Black womens intellectual history feminism and activism who helped pave the way for modern social justice movements like Black Lives Matter and Say Her NameA Penguin ClassicThe Portable Anna Julia Cooper brings together for the first time Anna Julia Coopers major collection of essays A Voice from the South along with several previously unpublished poems plays journalism and selected correspondences including over thirty previously unpublished letters between Anna Julia Cooper and W. E. B. Du Bois.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 womens 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 yearsher words have been memorialized in the US passport and in 2009 she was commemorated with a US postal stamp. Coopers 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.
language: English
title: The Portable Anna Julia Cooper
publisher: Penguin Classics