An Emma Watson "Our Shared Shelf" Selection for November/December 2018 • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018/ MENTIONED BY: The New York Public Library • Mashable • The Atlantic • Bustle • The Root • Politico Magazine ("What the 2020 Candidates Are Reading This Summer") • NPR • Fast Company ("10 Best Books for Battling Your Sexist Workplace") • The Guardian ("Top 10 Books About Angry Women") Rebecca Solnit, The New Republic: "Funny, wrenching, pithy, and pointed." Roxane Gay : " I encourage you to check out Eloquent Rage out now." Joy Reid, Cosmopolitan : "A dissertation on black women’s pain and possibility." America Ferrera: "Razor sharp and hilarious. There is so much about her analysis that I relate to and grapple with on a daily basis as a Latina feminist." Damon Young: "Like watching the world’s best Baptist preacher but with sermons about intersectionality and Beyoncé instead of Ecclesiastes." Melissa Harris Perry: “I was waiting for an author who wouldn’t forget, ignore, or erase us black girls... I was waiting and she has come in Brittney Cooper .” Michael Eric Dyson: “ Cooper may be the boldest young feminist writing today... and she will make you laugh out loud .” So what if it’s true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be. 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. But Cooper shows us that there is more to the story than that. Black women’s eloquent rage is what makes Serena Williams such a powerful tennis player. It’s what makes Beyoncé’s girl power anthems resonate so hard. It’s what makes Michelle Obama an icon. Eloquent rage keeps us all honest and accountable. It reminds women that they don’t have to settle for less. 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. And it took another intervention, this time staged by one of her homegirls, to turn Brittney into the fierce feminist she is today. In Brittney Cooper’s world, neither mean girls nor fuckboys ever win. But homegirls emerge as heroes. 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. A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY: Glamour • Chicago Reader • Bustle • Autostraddle One of Signature 's "5 Books that Bring Intersectional Feminism to the Forefront" "Eloquent Rage follows in the line of classics in the genre..." ― The New York Times "[A] proud, energetic reclamation of anger, via memoir and pop cultural analysis... forceful and smart and joyous all at once...It was an inspiration to me." ―Rebecca Traister, The Cut "Razor sharp and hilarious. There is so much about her analysis that I relate to and grapple with on a daily basis as a Latina feminist." ―America Ferrera "[ Eloquent Rage ] is distinct both for its telling as the author’s own journey and for its―yes―eloquent personal voice, which, between her erudition (she is a professor at Rutgers) and her command of vernacular, is funny, wrenching, pithy, and pointed." ―Rebecca Solnit, The New Republic "A dissertation on black women’s pain and possibility; an autobiography of a black woman’s complicated dance with feminism, overcoming otherness as a big black girl in a skinny-white-girl world, her mother’s triumph over violence, and her own journey from disappointment to black joy." ―Joy Reid, Cosmopolitan "A powerful examination of Black women’s anger, the cost for Black women who choose to be angry, and how all of this is rooted in misogynoir – or, racist and sexist oppression. Cooper gives us hope, reminding us that we can be powerful and we don’t have to settle for less." ― Signature "Cooper's Eloquent Rage is a fearless, phenomenal memoir of finding her voice as a black woman." ― The Root "A breakthrough... this force of nature is becoming one of our fiercest voices in the new generation of African-American thinkers." ― Essence "With straight-up vulnerability and humor sprinkled in, Cooper reminds readers that feminism, in essence, is about loving women...a for-us-by-us handbook tailor made to obliterate the idea of post-racialism in the Trump era." ―Bust Magazine "[Cooper's] ardent book reminds us that what you build is infinitely more important than what you tear down―and that rage makes great mortar." ― Ms. Magazine "Cooper says there's power in being mad as hell." ― Cosmopolitan “An ambitious, electrifying memoir. Recommended for readers seeking contemporary social commentary that’s unrelenting yet humorous.” ― Library Journal (Starred Review) “Sharp and always humane, Cooper's