Cooper, Brittney C., 1980-

Beyond respectability : the intellectual thought of race women / Intellectual thought of race women Brittney C. Cooper. - Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource. - Women, gender, and sexuality in American history .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: the duty of the true race woman -- Organized anxiety : the National Association of Colored Women and the creation of the black public sphere -- "Proper, dignified agitation" : the evolution of Mary Church Terrell -- Queering Jane Crow : Pauli Murray's quest for an unhyphenated identity -- The problems and possibilities of the Negro woman intellectual -- Epilogue.



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Terrell, Mary Church, 1863-1954.
Murray, Pauli, 1910-1985.


National Association of Colored Women (U.S.)


African American women--Intellectual life--19th century.
African American women--Intellectual life--20th century.
African American women--Biography.
African American intellectuals--Biography.


Electronic Books.

E185 / .B496 2017