![]() ![]() She chronicles it all, including her relationship with one of Baldwin’s closest friends, Sam Floyd, in My Soul Looks Back. Harris had a front-row view to the ascension of James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Nina Simone, and other elite Black folks in their orbit. New York City has always been a remarkable place, but in the 1970s, the city served as mecca and muse for Black creatives. ![]() If Black women’s history is your thing, Beyond Respectability should definitely be on your June reading list.Ģ. Beyond Respectability is the second book in that trilogy, and it focuses on Black female intellectuals-including Anna Julia Cooper, Mary Church Terrell, Pauli Murray, and Toni Cade Bambara-from the 1800s through the 1970s. She’s so brilliant, in fact, that she’s releasing three books in the course of one year. ![]() Brittney Cooper, a women’s studies professor at Rutgers University and cofounder of the Crunk Feminist Collective, is one of academia’s brightest scholars. Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women by Brittney Cooperĭr. Want more seasonal reads? Make sure to sign up for our email list and we’ll send you a new BitchReads list, every quarter, in partnership with Powell’s Books!ġ. Whether you’re reading on vacation, in the park, or on the beach, the warmer weather makes reading a pleasant activity. Summer is an ideal time to read a good, engrossing book. ![]()
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