Three members of the CFC were recently profiled in Essence Magazine's list of Young, Black, and Amazing women under age 35 (August 2012 issue). Susana Morris of the Crunk Feminist Collective, a feminist of color scholar-activist group that runs a highly successful blog. She has a forthcoming article on Sapphire's Push as a hip hop novel.ĭr. She has published several book chapters and articles on representations of Black women in popular culture, including a piece on the representation of the "baby-mama" figure in Hip Hop music and film, the feminist implications of Janet Jackson's 2004 Super Bowl mishap, and the importance of Michelle Obama in the tradition of Black female leadership. Using Black feminist thought to understand contemporary articulations of Black womanhood is Dr. She has two forthcoming book chapters on the history of the Order of Eastern Star and the history of Black women's fraternal and club activism in North Louisiana. Cooper studies Black women's organizations as sites for the production of intellectual thought.
Along with work on black female public intellectuals, Dr. In particular, this work interrogates the manner in which public Black women have theorized racial identity and gender politics, and the methods they used to operationalize those theories for the uplift of Black communities.
She is author of Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (University of Illinois Press, May 2017) and Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower(St. Cooper is co-editor of The Crunk Feminist Collection (The Feminist Press 2017). in English and Political Science, Howard Universityīlack Women’s Intellectual History, Black Feminist Thought, Hip Hop Feminisms, Hip Hop Studies, Race and Gender Representation in Popular Culture, Digital Feminisms, and New Media.ĭr. in American Studies, Emory University (2009)ī.A.
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