Description
A collection of essential writings from the iconic foremother of Black intellectual history, feminism and activism
The Portable Anna Julia Cooper will introduce a new generation of readers to an educator, public intellectual and community activist whose prescient insights and eloquent prose underlie some of the most important developments in modern American intellectual thought and African-American social and political activism.
This volume brings together, for the first time, Anna Julia Cooper's major collection of essays, A Voice from the South, along with several previously unpublished poems, plays, journalism and selected correspondences, including over thirty previously unpublished letters between Anna Julia Cooper and W. E. B. Du Bois.
About the Author
Anna Julia Cooper (Author)
Anna Julia Cooper (1858 - 1964) was an American author, educator, sociologist, speaker and Black liberation activist, and one of the most prominent African-American scholars in United States history.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (External Editor)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Centre for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
Book Information
ISBN 9780143135067
Author Anna Julia Cooper
Format Paperback
Page Count 368
Imprint Penguin Classics
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Weight(grams) 433g
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 130mm * 27mm
