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Brittney Cooper: Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

February 20, 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Brittney Cooper, a scholar, speaker and one-of-a-kind public intellectual, is a foremost expert on black feminist history and contemporary intersectional feminist thought. She is the author of two groundbreaking new books: Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women and Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower. Cooper, an associate professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, has appeared at universities around the country and on countless television and radio programs. Her interdisciplinary conversations at NC State University will remind us why an understanding of black feminism is crucial to understanding our world today.