The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper

Anna J. Cooper

doi:10.5771/9780585120454

Summary

Recently Anna Julia Cooper has emerged as the most important classic writer in the tradition of African American feminist thought. Mary Helen Washington described Cooper's work as "the most precise, forceful, well-argued statement of black feminist thought to come out of the nineteenth century." This is the first collection of all of Cooper's major writings, including many never before published. It includes all of the essays from her famous book, A Voice from the South, in addition to many other essays and letters accessible only in archives until now. The organization of this important new collection lends itself to a clearer understanding of the major themes and contributions of Cooper's thought, her development as a thinker and writer, and the critiques and controversies surrounding her work. Lemert and Bhan introduce Cooper as an activist, settlement founder, school teacher, college president, linguist, and scholar—a life that paralleled the prodigious accomplishments of W.E.B. Du Bois in so many ways.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2000
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8476-8407-6
ISBN-Online: 978-0-585-12045-4
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 359
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. 1 Anna Julia Cooper: The Colored Woman's Office Charles Lemert No access
1. 2 Our Raison d'Etre (1892) No access
2. 3 Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race (1886) No access
3. 4 The Higher Education of Women (1890-1891) No access
4. 5 "Woman versus the Indian" (1891-1892) No access
5. 6 The Status of Woman in America (1892) No access
1. 7 Has America a Race Problem? If So, How Can It Best Be Solved? (1892) No access
2. 8 The Negro As Presented in American Literature (1892) No access
3. 9 What Are We Worth? (1892) No access
4. 10 The Gain from a Belief (1892) No access
1. 11 The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women in the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation: A Response to Fannie Barrier Williams (1893) No access
2. 12 The Ethics of the Negro Question (1902) No access
3. 13 The Social Settlement: What It Is, and What It Does (1913) No access
4. 14 Sketches from a Teacher's Notebook: Loss of Speech through Isolation (1923?) No access
5. 15 Foreword to Le Peletinage de Charlemagne (1925) No access
6. 16 The Humor of Teaching (1930) No access
7. 17 My Racial Philosophy (1930) No access
8. 18 The Negro's Dialect (1930s?) No access
9. 19 On Education (1930s?) No access
10. 20 Angry Saxons and Negro Education (1938) No access
11. 21 Hitler and the Negro (1942?) No access
1. 22 The Social Conditions of the French-American Colonies: The Class Structure (1925) No access
2. 23 Black Slavery and the French Nation (1925) No access
3. 24 Equality of Races and the Democratic Movement (1925) No access
4. 25 Legislative Measures concerning Slavery in the United States: 1787-1850 (1925) No access
1. 26 The Early Years in Washington: Reminiscences of Life with the Grimkes (1951) No access
2. 27 The Third Step: Cooper's Memoir of the Sorbonne Doctorate (1945-1950?) No access
3. 28 Selected Letters and Other Writings (1925-1958) No access
4. 29 The Life of Anna Julia Cooper: A Chronology No access
Index No access Pages 347 - 358
About the Editors No access Pages 359 - 359