E-Books →But Some of Us Are Brave Black Women's Studies

Featuringwritingfrom eminent scholars, activists, teachers, and writers, such as the Combahee River Collective and Alice Walker,All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Bravechallenges the absence of Black feminist thought in women's studies, confronts racism, and investigates the mythology surrounding Black women in the social sciences.
As the first comprehensive collection of Black feminist scholarship,But Some of Us Are Brave was recognized by Audre Lorde as "the beginning of a new era, where the 'women' in women's studies will no longer mean 'white.'"
CoeditorsAkasha (Gloria T.) Hull,Patricia Bell-Scott, andBarbara Smithare authors and former women's studies professors.Brittney C. Cooper is aprofessor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of several books, includingEloquent Rage, named by Emma Watson as an Our Shared Shelf read for November/December 2018.