Beyond respectability : the intellectual thought of race women / Brittney C. Cooper.

Beyond Respectability" charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the 1800s through the Black Power era of the 1970s. Eschewing the Great Race Man paradigm so prominent in contemporary discourse, Brittney C. Cooper look...

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Main Author:	Cooper, Brittney C., 1980- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Series:	Women, gender, and sexuality in American history.
Subjects:	Terrell, Mary Church, > 1863-1954. Murray, Pauli, > 1910-1985. National Association of Colored Women (U.S.) 1800-1999 African American women > Intellectual life > 19th century. African American women > Intellectual life > 20th century. African American women > Biography. African American intellectuals > Biography. African American intellectuals. African American women. African American women > Intellectual life.
Genre:	Biography.
Physical Description:	xiii, 187 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Variant Title:	Intellectual thought of race women
Format:	Book