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As a white woman pastor and author, I needed every ounce of courage within me to read this paradigm-shifting book. Unlearning my perceptions and beliefs (wrongly believing I am an amazing feminist) is now my daily work. Brittney Cooper's Eloquent Rage benefits anyone who claims to love equality, equity, and justice for all. Her book will be my feminist Bible. The final chapter gave me permission to acknowledge my ignorance and go forth with purpose and joy.


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Eloquent Rage A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower edition by Brittney C Cooper Politics Social Sciences eBooks Reviews

For most of my life, I wondered what it would be like to walk in the shoes of a black person. What it must feel like for large groups of people to assume things about me based on the color of my skin? Some would most likely be positive such as being a great lover and having the ability to hit the dance floor with such style and rhythm. However, I largely believe that mostly negative assumptions would come my way from most Whites such as being lesser than Whites; e.g. intellectually, emotionally, meaner, lazier, poorer, and more aggressive. I can imagine, but I will never really know what it feels like to be black because I will never be black. Thanks to reading Dr. Cooper's amazing book Eloquent Rage, I was able to have a small peek into the window of what it is like to be an over-achieving, brilliant, funny as hell, blunt as hell, sometimes hurting like hell, lonely as hell, mostly misunderstood power-house black woman. My guess is that if you are a black or white heterosexual male, you may shake your head after reading her book asking "what in the hell?". I would also guess that if you're a black woman reading this book, you would be laughing out loud, shedding tears, but mostly shaking your head whole-heatedly agreeing with Dr. Cooper. Me, I'm none of the above. My thoughts, WOW! I cannot stop thinking about what I've read and my guess, neither will you.
What a gift! I just cannot put this book down. It is breathing life into so many thoughts and experiences that have defined my life, my relationships, and my research. I bought an additional copy for my mentor, and I am planning to buy more for my girlfriends! This book is so open and honest, presenting the multiple ways race, gender, and class converge in the oppression of Black women, and how we subsequently navigate the world. Truly a great and validating read!
The level of analysis of the structures that weigh down black women (as a demographic) is so high, I found myself awed at how rock solid her case is for why we all should own our rage. She does not mince words or try to make the data, research and her anecdotal evidence comfort black men and white people who believe themselves to be good. She weaves feminist theology in with honest assessments for the realities of overachieving black girls who can not be fully convinced that their silence and submission will save them. This book has me speechless hours after finishing it.
This is a must have for Black women who understands what it feels like not to be heard and have your rage misidentified! I literally feel like I am reading the pages of my own journey and it reassuring to know that I’m (we’re) not alone. Cooper loves us so deeply and passionately and in a world that hardly ever looks to affirms us, I am grateful that this work was created
It was actually the pod-cast episode "But that's another story", in which author and Professor Brittney Cooper spoke about religion, coming-of-age, and her love of the "Babysitters Club" that initially brought me here. In that episode (which I highly recommend), Cooper discussed growing up in a community where church was paramount, and asking questions was at best weakly tolerated, and at worst, blatantly discouraged. It took me back to my (very different) cultural upbringing, but a similar experience in my own catechism classes as a child asking questions about what a term or passage meant, and being either underwhelmed with the answer - or worse, ashamed at even having asked. Like Cooper, it took a long time to come to my own terms with what religion and spirituality meant to me. I had never heard this type of ambivalence and candidness in a discussion about religion before, and that podcast episode particularly resonated with me and eventually led me, here, to this book.

Now on to the book "Eloquent Rage" was phenomenal. Cooper somehow weaves the personal, the political, and everything in-between into a very readable and striking format. She uses rage as a tool to methodically and effectively call out injustice and fight for change. She holds no punches when pinpointing the social, political, economic and institutional forces that bolster racism and sexism. I learned a lot here, even as someone who (mistakenly) thought that they had been primed on feminism by taking women's studies classes in college and digging into the required and suggested readings mentioned in the syllabus. However, though I had learned much about Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, and Susan B Anthony - I hadn't heard of Ida B. Wells or Audre Lorde before this book despite their very prolific bibliographies and very clear contributions to the feminist movement. She uses this and many other points to illustrate how the contributions of Black women have been overlooked. To be honest, I also hadn't heard the term "respectability politics", though I was well aware of its contents (one of my parents being an immigrant from Asia). Cooper calls out respectability politics throughout the book, showing how it is used to rationalize injustice and only reinforce the existing patriarchy. This isn't a dry textbook, and Cooper uses statistics sparingly, but the ones she uses are an effective and shocking indictment of the systems that be, illustrating the wide discrepancies of wealth based on race and sex.

One passage that particularly stood out to me was the use of the term 'resilience 'and her very real explanation that term 'The logic of relying on people's resilience goes something like, 'Let's see just how much we can take from you before you break. That is evil." The use of this term as an excuse for idly allowing suffering and discrimination, is despicable. It also got me thinking about how the term 'model minority' plays into this logic - it's a counterpart to the very faulty idea that personal traits can overcome structural problems. The idea of the underdog who breaks through boundaries and beats the odds to become something exceptional is a romanticized idea, forged in the old Western fables that accompanied the Gold Rush and the "rags-to-riches" novels that dominated the Gilded Age, but it is a fundamentally flawed and unfair expectation. By definition, exceptionalism is - well, exceptional. And, as Cooper notes, celebrating hard-earned success is distinct and separate from ignoring the barriers that stood in their way of getting there.

This book left me, as another reviewer put it, 'speechless'. It is brilliant, subversive, and honest and definitely the best (non-science) book I have read all year.
Dear white women Can we talk? Eloquent Rage is an important read. As a woman, some of it will resonate with you. As a white person, some of it will make you feel uncomfortable. Lean into the discomfort, consider this perspective, and I think you will learn from it as I did. This book is brutally honest, written with humor and grace, without straying from its intellectual underpinnings.
As a white woman pastor and author, I needed every ounce of courage within me to read this paradigm-shifting book. Unlearning my perceptions and beliefs (wrongly believing I am an amazing feminist) is now my daily work. Brittney Cooper's Eloquent Rage benefits anyone who claims to love equality, equity, and justice for all. Her book will be my feminist Bible. The final chapter gave me permission to acknowledge my ignorance and go forth with purpose and joy.