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Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women

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Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women

Brittney C. Cooper

In the late nineteenth century, a group of publicly active African American women emerged from the social and educational elite to assume racial leadership roles. Their work challenged thinking on racial issues as well as questions about gender, sexuality, and class. Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution ... Read more