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Eloquent Rage

A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

By: Brittney Cooper

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Eloquent Rage

A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

By: Brittney Cooper

An Emma Watson "Our Shared Shelf" Selection for November/December 2018 • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018/ MENTIONED BY: The New York Public Library • Mashable • The Atlantic • Bustle • The Root • Politico Magazine ("What the 2020 Candidates Are Reading This Summer") • NPR • Fast Company ("10 Best Books for Battling Your Sexist Workplace") • The Guardian ("Top 10 Books About Angry Women") Rebecca Solnit, The New Republic: "Funny, wrenching, pithy, and pointed." Roxane Gay: "I encourage you to check out Eloquent Rage out now." Joy Reid, Cosmopolitan: "A dissertation on black women’s pain and possibility." America Ferrera: "Razor sharp and hilarious. There is so much about her analysis that I relate to and grapple with on a daily basis as a Latina feminist." Damon Young: "Like watching the world’s best Baptist preacher but with sermons about intersectionality and Beyoncé instead of Ecclesiastes." Melissa Harris Perry: “I was waiting for an author who wouldn’t forget, ignore, or erase us black girls...I was waiting and she has come in Brittney Cooper.” Michael Eric Dyson: “Cooper may be the boldest young feminist writing today...and she will make you laugh out loud.” So what if it’s true that Black women are mad as hell? They have 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 often, 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 such a 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 was 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 ultimately feminism, friendship, and faith in one's own superpowers are all we really need to turn things right side up again. A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY: Glamour • Chicago Reader • Bustle • Autostraddle

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St. Martin's Press

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1250112893

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9781250112897

Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood

By: Brittney Cooper,Chanel Craft Tanner,Susana Morris

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Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood

By: Brittney Cooper,Chanel Craft Tanner,Susana Morris

A Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book of 2021 Hip-hop and feminism combine in this empowering guide with attitude, from best-selling author Brittney Cooper and founding members of the Crunk Feminist Collective. Loud and rowdy girls, quiet and nerdy girls, girls who rock naturals, girls who wear weave, outspoken and opinionated girls, girls still finding their voice, queer girls, trans girls, and gender nonbinary young people who want to make the world better: Feminist AF uses the insights of feminism to address issues relevant to today’s young womxn. What do you do when you feel like your natural hair is ugly, or when classmates keep touching it? How do you handle your self-confidence if your family or culture prizes fair-skinned womxn over darker-skinned ones? How do you balance your identities if you’re an immigrant or the child of immigrants? How do you dress and present yourself in ways that feel good when society condemns anything outside of the norm? Covering colorism and politics, romance and pleasure, code switching, and sexual violence, Feminist AF is the empowering guide to living your feminism out loud.

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WW Norton

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1324005068

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Stand Up!: 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change

By: Brittney Cooper

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Stand Up!: 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change

By: Brittney Cooper

From the New York Times bestselling author of Eloquent Rage comes a powerful, groundbreaking picture book debut introducing young readers to ten revolutionary Black women -- both historical and contemporary -- who changed the world for the better, inspiring readers today to know their strength, to be brave, and to STAND UP! “A breakthrough... this force of nature is becoming one of our fiercest voices in the new generation of African-American thinkers.” -- Essence Bestselling author Brittney Cooper is a leading Black feminist voice of our times. From her New York Times bestseller Eloquent Rage, selected by Emma Watson as an "Our Shared Shelf Book," to her frequent guest appearances on MSNBC, to her regular features on Cosmopolitan.com and Salon.com, and her TED Talk with over 800K views, there's no question Brittney Cooper is one of the most preeminent Black influencers of today. Now, this author, professor, activist, and cultural critic brings her immense talents to the children's space with a seven-title publishing deal at Scholastic, spanning from picture books to middle grade, and launching with this momentous picture book debut: Stand Up! Stand Up! tells the story of ten historic female figures who changed the world by standing up for what's right, including legendary Civil Rights activists like Ruby Bridges and Rosa Parks and spanning to contemporary role models like Bree Newsome, who removed the confederate flag from the South Carolina state house grounds, and Mari Copeny, a youth activist who fought for clean water in Flint, Michigan. This inspirational biographical collection will live side by side with bestselling classics like Little Leaders and She Persisted yet offers a wholly original, powerful new voice and approach that make this story so singular, personal, and groundbreaking. Cooper's enlightening text depicts both famous and unsung Black women who took a stand and made the world a better place for future generations. Each heroic figure is interconnected by a united quest for equity, and offers young readers a stirring, inspirational call to action, reminding them that they are mighty too, and can be forces for change when they stand up!

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Scholastic Inc.

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1338815458

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Eloquent Rage

A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

By: Brittney Cooper

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A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

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Beyond Respectability

The Intellectual Thought of Race Women

By: Brittney C. Cooper

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Beyond Respectability

The Intellectual Thought of Race Women

By: Brittney C. Cooper

Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the 1800s through the Black Power era of the 1970s. Eschewing the Great Race Man paradigm so prominent in contemporary discourse, Brittney C. Cooper looks at the far-reaching intellectual achievements of female thinkers and activists like Anna Julia Cooper, Mary Church Terrell, Fannie Barrier Williams, Pauli Murray, and Toni Cade Bambara. Cooper delves into the processes that transformed these women and others into racial leadership figures, including long-overdue discussions of their theoretical output and personal experiences. As Cooper shows, their body of work critically reshaped our understandings of race and gender discourse. It also confronted entrenched ideas of how--and who--produced racial knowledge.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252099540

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9780252099540

The Crunk Feminist Collection

By: Brittney C. Cooper,Susana M. Morris,Robin M. Boylorn

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The Crunk Feminist Collection

By: Brittney C. Cooper,Susana M. Morris,Robin M. Boylorn

Essays on hip-hop feminism featuring relevant, real conversations about how race and gender politics intersect with pop culture and current events. For the Crunk Feminist Collective, their academic day jobs were lacking in conversations they actually wanted. To address this void, they started a blog that turned into a widespread movement. The Collective’s writings foster dialogue about activist methods, intersectionality, and sisterhood. And the writers’ personal identities—as black women; as sisters, daughters, and lovers; and as television watchers, sports fans, and music lovers—are never far from the discussion at hand. These essays explore “Sex and Power in the Black Church,” discuss how “Clair Huxtable is Dead,” list “Five Ways Talib Kweli Can Become a Better Ally to Women in Hip Hop,” and dwell on “Dating with a Doctorate (She Got a Big Ego?).” Self-described as “critical homegirls,” the authors tackle life stuck between loving hip hop and ratchet culture while hating patriarchy, misogyny, and sexism. “Refreshing and timely.” —Bitch Magazine “Our favorite sister bloggers.” —Elle “By centering a Black Feminist lens, The Collection provides readers with a more nuanced perspective on everything from gender to race to sexuality to class to movement-building, packaged neatly in easy-to-read pieces that take on weighty and thorny ideas willingly and enthusiastically in pursuit of a more just world.” —Autostraddle “Much like a good mix-tape, the book has an intro, outro, and different layers of based sound in the activist, scholar, feminist, women of color, media representation, sisterhood, trans, queer and questioning landscape.” —Lambda Literary Review

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The Feminist Press at CUNY

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1558619488

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Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood

By: Brittney Cooper,Chanel Craft Tanner,Susana Morris

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WW Norton

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Beyond Respectability

The Intellectual Thought of Race Women

By: Brittney C. Cooper

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The Intellectual Thought of Race Women

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Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales – Wings of Fury

By: Brittney Morris

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Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales – Wings of Fury

By: Brittney Morris

The official prequel to Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales from Marvel and Insomniac Games, with an exclusive adventure that leads directly into the game itself. MILES MORALES has a lot going on, what with moving to a new neighborhood, dealing with the loss of his father, and the whole gaining super-powers thing. After a misunderstanding with the law, Miles questions what it means to be a hero when people are ready to believe the worst in you. Tempted by the power and freedom of his new abilities, Miles must decide what kind of Spider-Man he wants to be. When Vulture starts wreaking havoc across the city with his new accomplice Starling, Miles can't just sit back and watch. Teamed up with Peter Parker, the two Spider-Men must stop the winged duo before they can unleash experimental tech across the whole city. With lives at risk, can Miles step up and be a hero?

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Titan Books (US, CA)

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1789097088

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What If...

You Joined your Dreams with the Most Amazing God

By: Beni Johnson,Sheri Silk,Bill Johnson,Danny Silk,Theresa Dedmon,April LaFrance,Julie Winter,Candace Johnson,Dawna DeSilva,Brittney Serpell

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You Joined your Dreams with the Most Amazing God

By: Beni Johnson,Sheri Silk,Bill Johnson,Danny Silk,Theresa Dedmon,April LaFrance,Julie Winter,Candace Johnson,Dawna DeSilva,Brittney Serpell

A World of Possibilities! Trusting God to fulfill all your “What ifs” and beyond. What if you… fulfilled your dreams? weren’t afraid? needed healing and received it? believed in yourself and partnered with your amazing God? could learn to live out of your passion? And what if you lived in the Kingdom of God, which means you live in righteousness, peace, and joy—it’s true! You can be enjoying a life of joy in the Lord, peace in the Holy Spirit, and the righteousness of Jesus Christ, your personal Savior. for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit (Romans 14:17). Today you can join your “What ifs” with God’s love and anointing—and you will be amazed at what the two of you can do together!

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Destiny Image Publishers

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0768487757

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Stand Up!: 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change

By: Brittney Cooper

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Scholastic Inc.

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The Crunk Feminist Collection

By: Brittney C. Cooper,Susana M. Morris,Robin M. Boylorn

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By: Brittney C. Cooper,Susana M. Morris,Robin M. Boylorn

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Eloquent Rage

Eloquent Rage

Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood

Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood

Stand Up!: 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change

Stand Up!: 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change

Eloquent Rage

Eloquent Rage

Beyond Respectability

Beyond Respectability

The Crunk Feminist Collection

The Crunk Feminist Collection

Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood

Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood

Beyond Respectability

Beyond Respectability

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales – Wings of Fury

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales – Wings of Fury

What If...

What If...

Stand Up!: 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change

Stand Up!: 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change

The Crunk Feminist Collection

The Crunk Feminist Collection

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