This is a book for women who know shit is fucked up. This is a book for women who expect to be taken seriously and for men who take grown women seriously.
This is a book by a grown-ass woman written for other grown-ass women. My summary of the book won’t do it justice, so let me give you a taste of Eloquent Rage from the Cooper’s own pen: If you’re not a Black woman, you should read this book because it necessarily contextualizes Black women’s emotions in ways that are so befitting for such a time as this. If you’re a Black woman, you should read this book as a form of validation and self-healing. Black women’s anger is a powerful, unshakeable force that sends people from marginalized communities into the streets, the courtrooms, the classrooms, and beyond to fight for the more just world that our ancestors fought for and our descendants will fight for long after we’re gone. She writes that our anger has fueled every political movement in the United States, from suffrage to Civil Rights to #MeToo. What I love about Cooper’s book is that she confronts this idea head-on and flips it on its head. But Black women have a unique relationship with our emotions an overt display of emotions by Black women, particularly negative emotions like sadness, anger, and doubt, is pathologized in the U.S. The ugly truth is that some Americans have the privilege to be emotional about what is transpiring around us (e.g., white women throwing crying fits when confronted about a racist act). Americans are experiencing a myriad of emotions in response to the horrific events that are taking place in our country, from police brutality against Black bodies, racist effigies, lynchings of Black people, Covid-19 and its disproportionate effects on the health of Black and Brown people, and the lack of presidential leadership. not alone, anyway.In the words of Angela Davis, we are living in a time that we have never seen before. power is not attained from books and seminars. why? have you ever noticed that people who have real power, wealth, job security, influence do not intend empowerment seminars.
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the politics of personal empowermt suggest to us that if we simply free our minds then assets will follow. did we have enough drive? inefficient? an apostle? to change our condition. it tells us in free market devoid of any regulation or credibility what happens to those on the bottom is entirely our faults. neolalism is endlessly concerned with personal responsibility and individual self-regulation. it's also a decidedly neoliberal word the places the responsibility for combating systems on individuals. those who preach the sermon whether in print or from the pulpit think they are empowering black women to address the conditions we face. While i have, in fact, walked out of the service or two i have, thus far, refrain from storing books. yes, folks are quick to say, adopt and freeze your eggs and the intimate consequences of all these good choices we have made our relentlessly brutal. part of what friendship has met in my 30s supporting my home girls in their 30s and 40s who have limited partnering options and even fewer options for starting families. the same choices we make to not ruin our lives as young people become the choices that make us miserable 20 years later. black women deserve more options than these extremes. for the first time i began to wonder whether i should've been less regimented and less reckless in my 20s when i was younger and had eggs to spare. perhaps this as part of the reminded of the dreaded by logical caucus having to tell my mother that since i had no partner might not give her grandchildren.
after my fibroid surgery successful outpatient procedure i thought would buy me a bit more time by doctor, a lovely black woman gynecologist, told me more than likely your fibroids will return. the world doesn't work that way for black women. i bought into the idea that making good choices around education and career would entitle me to a broader set of options in every part of my life. i had never wanted to be a single mother. i spent my 20s and most of my 30s waiting on a partner to show up before i would ever consider children. now that i'm grown and no longer believe the black women should imbibe shame and blame for the great ways that we build families and lives in range for filling partnerships and work to maintain safe homes and steady employment. the goal do not be like them inmates are drive and hustle. these are the narratives that working-class quote unquote good girls buy into in order to make our way out of the hood. i knew very early on that i did not want to be like the girls in middle school saddled with children i cannot support due to a lifetime of low-wage work with little opportunity for advancement. The dubious origins of my birth my family certainly would not have been invited to jack and jill.
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