A review by historyofjess
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

informative reflective fast-paced

3.5

There's something about following a lightweight feminist book written by a white woman with one from a Black woman that really highlights how much more valuable the latter is. Cooper has such a wider view on not only what feminism is but what it can be and what it can do. I was particularly intrigued by how her own intersectional views lead her to acknowledge and recognize where her differing viewpoints contradicted themselves and how that's something she, herself, has to reckon with (this was particularly interesting given that this part of the book came after some Hillary Clinton lionizing that I was a little put off by, myself). Cooper also has a lot to say about the relationships between Black men and Black women and the ways in which many Black men fail to show up for Black women both at home and in the street.