But – and here she becomes a tough-minded political pragmatist – women cannot reform society without working to educate themselves. Wells, Anna Julia Cooper, and many more.įrom page 32: In speaking of Anna Julia Cooper: “Like so many women’s rights leaders she insists on believing women possess sympathies and spiritual gifts men lack. The list of names I wrote down to do more research on begins with names like James Forten, Frances Jackson Coppin, Cyprian Clamorgan, Charlotte Forten, Ida B. There is so much history of courageous men and women in this memoir that I loved learning about. They agree with me on how disjointed the book is. Why did the book win so many awards? Is it because she talked about race? Is it because she talked about a different class of blacks we aren’t used to hearing about? Read some of the other Goodreads reviews. She was trying to teach a history lesson mixed in with her memoir which is fine but the way she went about it was hard to comprehend sometimes. When it was good it was good but when it was bad it was bad. Like you walked into a conversation mid-conversation and you were never able to contribute because you had no idea where the author was going or what the hell she was talking about. Where was the sense in it all? It was all over the place. There were sentences that didn’t have any punctuation. Being on the radar of whites but being careful to better themselves but not too much. Never fitting in with other lower-class blacks and not fitting in with whites either.
She speaks of her family trying to act white but not too white.
There is a great discussion in the book of the racism that is America. I’m reading the book from a place of white privilege obviously but I learned a great deal. Another one that I don’t remember where I heard about it but added it to my list of books to read.
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