Brittney Cooper | |
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Born |
Ruston, Louisiana, U.S. |
Education |
Howard University (
BA) Emory University ( MA, PhD) |
Occupation(s) | Author, pundit, cultural critic |
Employer | Rutgers University, New Brunswick |
Website | Official website |
Brittney Cooper is a tenured professor of Women and Gender Studies, author, professor, activist, and cultural critic. Her areas of research and work include black women organizations, black women intellectuals, and hip-hop feminism. [1] In 2013 and 2014, she was named to the Root.com's Root 100, an annual list of top Black influencers. [2]
Cooper is from Ruston, Louisiana. [1]
Cooper currently works as an associate professor of women's and gender studies and Africana studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. [1] [3] She is a co-founder of the Crunk Feminist Collective and co-editor of the collection of essays of the same title, which explore intersectionality, African-American culture, and hip-hop feminism. [4] [5]
Cooper has written three books.
Her first book was Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women, published in 2017 by University of Illinois Press. A book review from National Public Radio (NPR) called Beyond Respectability "a work of crucial cultural study." [6]
Cooper also co-authored and edited The Crunk Feminist Collection (published in 2017 by The Feminist Press at City University of New York) along with Susana M. Morris and Robin M. Boylorn.[ citation needed] The book collection received positive acclaim from Publishers Weekly, [7] Kirkus Reviews, [8] Literary Hub, [9] and Ebony. [10] The collection is a series of essays that originated on the blog The Crunk Feminist Collective, which Cooper co-founded. [11]
In 2018, her book Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower was published by St. Martin's Press. In it, Cooper explores black feminism and anger, specifically the anger of black women, as a basis for revolutionary action. [3]
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