Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice From the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters (Legacies Of Social Thought)

by Anna Julia Cooper, Charles Lemert (Editor), Esme Bhan (Editor)

"This collection is a major contribution to the reconstruction of gender balance in African-American history" --Manning Marable, Columbia University

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Feminism, Essays, Sociology, Education, Academic

370 pages, Paperback

First published December 29, 1997

About the author

Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (Raleigh, August 10, 1858 – February 27, 1964) was an American author, educator, speaker and one of the most prominent African-American scholars in United States history. Upon receiving her PhD in history from the University of Paris-Sorbonne in 1924, Cooper became the fourth African-American woman to earn a doctoral degree. She was also a prominent member of Washington, D.C.'s African-American community.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_J._...

Reviews

[David Withun · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[BMR, LCSW · Rating 3 out of 5]

This collection of writing was less interesting than I expected. AJC was more schoolmarm lecturer than feminist firebrand. Not essential reading. I will try to find Anna J. Cooper, a Voice from the South by Louise Daniel Hutchinson to find out more about the woman herself.

[Rami · Rating 2 out of 5]

Her misrepresentation of Islam is forgivable given that the Ottomans did anything but provide an admirable example of the faith at the time. However, her blatant misquoting of Voltaire really threw me off.

“Voltaire in his coarse, flippant way used to say, ‘Ideas are like beards–women and boys have none.’” (80)

Not to defend the guy who was notoriously anti-religion, but upon further investigation I saw that there was zero evidence that Voltaire ever said such a quote.

The real quote is “Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.”

Perhaps she is assuming that because women do not have beards (or at least usually don’t) that the analogy encompasses that idea but, to me, it more seems like she is looking for controversy in that statement where none is there.

If anything this reminds me of when someone virally tweeted "You can say 'I like pancakes' and somebody will say 'So you hate waffles?' No, that is a completely different idea. Where did you even get that from.”

[Tatiana SETI Hajara Welch · Rating 5 out of 5]

Re-reading this text as an adult had a different sting to it. It’s funny because we are still dealing with some of those things. Yes, we aren't being sold away. But we are being ripped away from our mothers and fathers ripped from their families through the CPS systems and through the disenfranchisement system as well as the incarceration of 68% of our k-12 students who grew up into unsupported adults and became victims of survival and circumstances. And that's what the book is about. Anna Julia Cooper is a slept-on figure in the black community and one we should all read as mothers, fathers, and just anyone helping to rear our children. We need to get our pride back and get to the point where etiquette and literacy matter again. I don't know. I think I am going to read it again next week. My children were even intrigued by the stories and asking questions. 9/10/2024-9/13/2024

[Ommiolgi · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a very interesting collection. The philosophical view of education as it provides perspective on the Booker T Washington vs Dubois. The writings she herself thought were important ending with her correspondences. This is a Tome, but a much needed and little heard black woman’s perspective. Interesting and historically important, certainly of a time and place.

Would recommend to those with a good grasp the history of the US.

[Jared]

Ok the methods: BRILLIANT. Cooper first person to study race and gender intersectionally. BUT WOW those conclusions: For Cooper (a black woman) Rosa Parks had "bad manners"

[Andrew Z · Rating 5 out of 5]

The mother of Black feminism. This book is essential reading, and Cooper’s story and perspectives deeply resonate with me over a century later.