A Voice From the South

by Anna Julia Cooper, Mary H. Washington (Introduction)

Overview

At the close of the 19th century, a black woman of the South presents womanhood as a vital element in the regeneration and progress of her race.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195052466
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/14/1988
Series:	The ^ASchomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	5.69(w) x 8.84(h) x 1.14(d)

Editorial Reviews

"It's a pleasure to come across Anna Julia Cooper, an outspoken feminist with a good sharp bite...A Voice from the South [is] one of the primary texts of black feminism."—Newsweek

"[A] landmark collection of feminist essays...The hope and commitment that Cooper was able to summon in the year lynchings reached their zenith [1892] is remarkable.—Eric J. Sundquist in he New York Times Book Review "And there's Anna Julia Cooper, whose eloquent and prophetic writings in A Voice From the South, published in 1892, stands as a hallmark of Black-feminist writing."—Essence

"The most compelling volume of this genre [Afro-American essays]....One of the original texts of black feminist analysis."—The Women's Review of Books

"The most precise, forceful, well-argued statement of black feminist thought to come out of the nineteenth century. A provocative look at the issues that dominated the intellectual doscourse of black women during the 1890s "—Mary Helen Washington from the Introduction

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