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"By a Black Woman of the South": Race, Place, and Gender in the Work of Anna Julia Cooper

Introduction: A Politics of Location

Across her life's work as a writer, educator, and activist, early African American feminist Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964)' asserted the simultaneous and interlocking nature of her identities as a black female Southerner. Cooper's conception of the fundamentally interwoven quality of the political implications and the lived meanings of race, gender, and region is perhaps most readily apparent in the full title of her 1892 volume, A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South: right from the title page, she marks out her multifaceted rhetorical, theoretical, and experiential positions.2 She reiterates her locatedness on the third page of her ...

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