This book argues that ultimately feminism, friendship, and faith in one's own superpowers are all we really need to turn things right side up again. And it took another intervention, this time staged by one of her homegirls, to turn Cooper into the fierce feminist she is today. When Cooper learned of her grandmother's eloquent rage about love, sex, and marriage in an epic and hilarious front-porch confrontation, her life was changed. It reminds women that they don't have to settle for less. Eloquent rage keeps us all honest and accountable. It's what makes Beyoncé's girl power anthems resonate so hard. So what if it’s true that Black women are mad as hell They have the right to be. Black women's eloquent rage is what makes Serena Williams such a powerful tennis player. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper was The Global Black Feminist Reading Circle’s Session 11 reading selection, Septemto November 27, 2018. But Cooper shows us that there is more to the story than that. In the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper reminds us that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting.Far too often, Black women's anger has been caricatured into an ugly and destructive force that threatens the civility and social fabric of American democracy. So what if it's true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be.
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