Anna Julia Cooper, Visionary Black Feminist: A Critical Introduction

May has written the first book to really situate Cooper as a radical intellectual. She elucidates not only Cooper's brilliant critique of racism and sexism, but her cross-disciplinary analysis of literature, education, religion, law and American culture. Most importantly, May establishes Cooper's philosophy of liberation--one that is global, historically grounded, passionate, and lived. From now on, anyone teaching 20th century intellectual history must come to terms with Anna Julia Cooper. --Robin D. G. Kelley, Columbia University, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination "May persuasively argues that Cooper's philosophical ideas are much more revolutionary--radical even--and subversive of dominant ideology than previously judged. This book will become central to the scholarship on 19th and early 20th century African American women writers." --Trudier Harris, UNC Chapel Hill, author of Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature Download Link