A Voice From the South [Hardcover]

It's a pleasure to come across Anna Julia Cooper, an outspoken feminist with a good sharp bite...A Voice from the South[is] one of the primary texts of black feminism. --Newsweek

[A] landmark collection of feminist essays...The hope and commitment that Cooper was able to summon in the year lynchings reached their zenith [1892] is remarkable.--Eric J. Sundquist in he New York Times Book Review And there's Anna Julia Cooper, whose eloquent and prophetic writings inA VoiceFrom the South, published in 1892, stands as a hallmark of Black-feminist writing. --Essence

The most compelling volume of this genre [Afro-American essays]....One of the original texts of black feminist analysis. --The Women's Review of Books

The most precise, forceful, well-argued statement of black feminist thought to come out of the nineteenth century. A provocative look at the issues that dominated the intellectual doscourse of black women during the 1890s --Mary Helen Washington from the Introduction