The Portable Anna Julia Cooper
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Winner of the American Library Association Award for Best Historical Materials
A Penguin Classic
The Portable Anna Julia Cooper brings together, for the first time, Anna Julia Cooper's major collection of essays, A Voice from the South, along with several previously unpublished poems, plays, journalism and selected correspondences, including over thirty previously unpublished letters between Anna Julia Cooper and W. E. B. Du Bois. The Portable Anna Julia Cooper will introduce a new generation of readers to an educator, public intellectual, and community activist whose prescient insights and eloquent prose underlie some of the most important developments in modern American intellectual thought and African American social and political activism.
Recognized as the iconic foremother of Black women's intellectual history and activism, Cooper (1858-1964) penned one of the most forceful and enduring statements of Black feminist thought to come of out of the nineteenth century. Attention to her work has grown exponentially over the years--her words have been memorialized in the US passport and, in 2009, she was commemorated with a US postal stamp. Cooper's writings on the centrality of Black girls and women to our larger national discourse has proved especially prescient in this moment of Black Lives Matter, Say Her Name, and the recent protests that have shaken the nation.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780525506713 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Publication date: | 08/09/2022 |
| Sold by: | Penguin Group |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 592 |
| Sales rank: | 315,936 |
| File size: | 2 MB |
About the Author
Shirley Moody-Turner (editor) is an associate professor of English and African American Studies at Penn State University. Through a Center for Humanities and Information grant, she helped support the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University in digitizing the Anna Julia Cooper papers. She is currently the editor for African American Literature in Transition 1900-1910 (Cambridge University Press).
Table of Contents
What Is an African American Classic? Henry Louis Gates, Jr xi
Introduction Shirley Moody-Turner xxi
Suggestions for Further Reading xxxvii
Chronology xxxix
A Note on the Text xliii
The Portable Anna Julia Cooper
Part I Major Text
1 A Voice from the South, by a Black Woman of the South (1892) 3
Part II On Education
2 From Servitude to Service: A Pageant (ca. 1940) 163
3 Christ's Church: A Twentieth-Century Parable (no date) 169
4 "The Ethics of the Negro Question" (1902) 172
5 "Educational Programs" (ca. 1930) 191
6 "The Negro's Dialect" (ca. 1930) 205
7 "Loss of Speech Through Isolation" (ca. 1923) 215
8 "College Extension for Working People" (no date) 221
9 The Social Settlement: What It Is, and What It Does (1913) 228
10 "The Tie That Used to Bind" (no date) 236
11 Christmas Bells: A One-Act Play for Children (c. 1940?) 243
12 Two Scenes from the Aeneid: A Translation from Vergil, Arranged and Directed by Anna J. Cooper (ca. 1928) 259
Part III Scrapbook, 1931-1940: Newspaper and Other Writings
13 "A Revolting Portrait" 275
14 "No Flowers Please" 277
15 "Dr. Cooper Doesn't Like the Hughes Poem" 279
16 "Educational Aims" 281
17 "Another Apostle of Race Integrity" 284
18 "Shannon's Book Continued" 287
19 "Anna J. Cooper Makes Comment on the Lindbergh Kidnapping Affair" 290
20 "The 14th Amendment: A Confession of Faith" 293
21 "'A Pitiful Mouth'" 296
22 "Say 'Thank You'" 299
23 "Courtesy" 302
24 "The Community Chest" 305
25 "Educational Chit-Chat" 307
26 "For Barbers: Boards of Examiners" 309
27 "'O Thou That Killest the Prophets and Stonest Them Which Are Sent Unto Thee'" 311
28 "The Problem of the City Child" 314
29 "The Return of a Favorite" 316
30 "The Unprivileged" 318
31 "Thy Neighbor as Thyself" 321
32 "'Let the Scottsboro Boys Forget,' Woman Tells Bill Robinson" 324
33 "Mistaken Identity" 326
34 "Belle Sadgwar" 329
35 "Obituary" 331
36 "An Appreciation of the Late Rev. William L. Washington" 333
37 "Lauds Robeson for Not Taking Part in Anti-Draft Rally" 335
38 "Writer Flays 'Native Son'; Would Like Story on Victor Hugo Theme" 338
39 "The Willkie Smear" 341
40 "Freedom of the Press and Negro Public Opinion" 343
41 Letter to Frederic J. Haskin, Director Star Information Bureau 347
Part IV Correspondences
Anna Julia Cooper-W. E. B. Du Bois Correspondences, 1923-1932 351
42 Anna J. Cooper to W. E. B. Du Bois (September 4, 1923) 351
43 W. E. B. Du Bois to Anna J. Cooper (September 20, 1923) 354
44 Anna J. Cooper to W. E. B. Du Bois (September 10, 1924) 355
45 W. E. B. Du Bois to Anna J. Cooper (September 12, 1924) 357
46 Anna J. Cooper to W. E. B. Du Bois (May 18, 1925) 359
47 Unknown to Anna J. Cooper (May 26, 1925) 360
48 Anna J. Cooper to W. E. B. Du Bois (December 4, 1925) 361
49 W. E. B. Du Bois to Anna J. Cooper (December 9, 1925) 362
50 Anna J. Cooper to W. E. B. Du Bois (December 21, 1927) 363
51 W. E. B. Du Bois to Anna J. Cooper (December 27, 1927) 364
52 Anna J. Cooper to W. E. B. Du Bois (January 13, 1928) 365
53 Anna J. Cooper to W. E. B. Du Bois (January 22, 1928) 366
54 W. E. B. Du Bois to Anna J. Cooper (January 24, 1928) 367
55 Anna J. Cooper to W. E. B. Du Bois (January 26, 1928) 369
56 W. E. B. Du Bois to Anna J. Cooper (January 28, 1928) 371
57 Anna J. Cooper to W. E. B. Du Bois (February 10, 1929) 372
58 Anna J. Cooper to W. E. B. Du Bois (October 27, 1929) 373
59 Anna J. Cooper to W. E. B. Du Bois (December 31, 1929) 374
60 W. E. B. Du Bois to Anna J. Cooper (January 9, 1930) 375
61 Anna J. Cooper to W. E. B. Du Bois (January 18, 1930) 376
62 W. E. B. Du Bois to Anna J. Cooper (January 28, 1930) 378
63 Anna J. Cooper to W. E. B. Du Bois (February 2, 1930) 379
64 Anna J. Cooper to W. E. B. Du Bois (September 19, 1930) 380
65 W. E. B. Du Bois to Anna J. Cooper (September 23, 1930) 381
66 Anna J. Cooper to W. E. B. Du Bois (October 30, 1930) 382
67 W. E. B. Du Bois to Anna J. Cooper (November 10, 1930) 384
68 Anna J. Cooper to W. E. B. Du Bois (February 8, 1931) 385
69 Anna J. Cooper to W. E. B. Du Bois (February 24, 1931) 386
70 Anna J. Cooper to W. E. B. Du Bois (January 20, 1932) 388
71 Anna J. Cooper to W. E. B. Du Bois (January 22, 1932) 391
Personal 392
72 Anna J. Cooper to Hannah Stanley Haywood (July 29, 1898) 392
73 Anna H. Jones to Anna J. Cooper (August 16, 1925) 394
74 John L. Love to Anna J. Cooper (no date) 396
75 Lula Love to Anna J. Cooper (August 11 [no year]) 399
Professional Challenges and Social Commentaries 401
76 Francis J. Grimké to Anna Julia Cooper (November 19, 1910) 401
77 Anna J. Cooper to Garnet C. Wilkinson (May 24, 1926) 403
78 Anna J. Cooper to George Hamilton (ca. 1916-1917) 409
79 Anna J. Cooper to A. G. Comings (October 1, 1928) 411
80 Anna J. Cooper to The Afro American (September 2, 1958) 413
81 Cooper, Note from Scrapbook 1881-1926 415
82 Adelia A. Field Johnston to Anna J. Cooper (May 4, 1892) 417
83 A. A. Allen to Anna J. Cooper (July 8, 1926) 418
84 W. G. Ballantine to O. O. Howard (May 17, 1892) 420
85 Anna J. Cooper to George M. Jones (August 21, 1926) 422
86 George M. Jones to Hermann H. Thornton (October 9, 1926) 424
87 George M. Jones to Hermann H. Thornton (October 12, 1926) 426
88 W. F. Bohn to Anna J. Cooper (October 14, 1926) 428
89 Anna J. Cooper to W. F. Bohn (October 17, 1926) 430
90 Hermann H. Thornton to W. F. Bohn (October 30, 1926) 432
91 Unknown to Anna J. Cooper (January 11, 1927) 434
92 Anna J. Cooper to Howard President and Trustees (May 5, 1944) 436
93 Dorothy B. Porter to Ray Billington (June 21, 1944) 438
94 Ray Billington to Dorothy B. Porter (July 2, 1944) 441
95 Ray Billington to Anna J. Cooper (July 2, 1944) 443
96 Ray Billington to Rayford Logan (August 20, 1951) 445
97 Dorothy B. Porter to Anna J. Cooper (October 8, 1951) 447
98 Ray Billington to Dorothy B. Porter (October 17, 1951) 449
99 Anna J. Cooper, Original Letter for Grimké Books (ca. 1951) 451
National and International Networks 452
100 Anna J. Cooper to Mrs. Paul Laurence Dunbar [Alice Dunbar-Nelson] (December 31, 1901) 452
101 Anna J. Cooper to Mrs. Paul Laurence Dunbar [Alice Dunbar-Nelson] (June 23, 1904) 453
102 Felix Klein to Anna J. Cooper (October 5,1923) 454
103 Anna J. Cooper to Felix Klein (January 15, 1924) 456
104 Felix Klein to Anna J. Cooper (December 19, 1925) 458
105 Felix Klein to Anna J. Cooper (December 14, 1934) 459
106 Felix Klein to Anna J. Cooper (December 1, 1936) 460
107 Felix Klein to Anna J. Cooper (December 27, 1944) 461
108 Oscar De Priest to Anna J. Cooper (November 16, 1932) 462
109 Jean de Roussy de Sales to Anna J. Cooper (October 11, 1941) 463
110 Anna J. Cooper to Alfred Churchill (January 21, 1941) 465
111 Anna J. Cooper to Alfred Churchill (February 9, 1941) 467
Part V Additional Writings
112 Autobiographical Note (no date) 471
113 Note About "Courageous Revolt" (no date) 473
114 "Discussion of the Same Subject by Mrs. A. J. Cooper of Washington, D.C." (1893) 475
115 "More Letters Concerning the Folklore Movement at Hampton" (1894) 480
116 Paper [to the Hampton Folklorists] by Mrs. Anna Julia Cooper (1894) 482
117 The American Negro Academy (1898) 486
118 Colored Women as Wage-Earners (1899) 492
119 "The Answer" (no date) 499
120 "Aunt Charlotte" (ca. 1906-1910) 501
121 "A Message" (ca. 1906-1910) 503
122 "Resurrexit, Resurgam" (April 1, 1956) 505
123 "Simon of Cyrene" (ca. 1906-1910) 507
124 "Sterling Calhoun" (ca. 1935) 510
125 "They Also" (no date) 512
126 "A Bench Beside the Road" (1923) 513
127 "Black Madonna" (no date) 515
128 Racial Philosophy Response to Occupational History Survey (1930) 517
Acknowledgments 521
Notes 523