A voice from the South
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A voice from the South
(The Schomburg library of nineteenth-century black women writers / Henry Louis Gates, Jr., general editor)(Oxford paperbacks)
Oxford University Press, 1990
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"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1990"--T.p. verso
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Considered one of the original texts foretelling the black feminist movement, this collection of essays, first published in 1892, offers an unparalleled view into the thought of black women writers in nineteenth-century America. A leading black spokeswoman of her time, Anna Julia Cooper came of age during a conservative wave in the black community, a time when men completely dominated African-American intellectual and political ideas. In these essays, Cooper
criticizes black men for securing higher education for themselves through the ministry, while erecting roadblocks to deny women access to those same opportunities, and denounces the elitism and provinciality of the white women's movement. Passionately committed to women's independence, Cooper espoused
higher education as the essential key to ending women's physical, emotional, and economic dependence on men.
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