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Brittney Cooper is a tenured professor of Women and Gender Studies, author, professor, activist, and cultural critic. Her areas of research and work include black women organizations, black women intellectuals, and hip-hop feminism. In 2013 and 2014, she was named to the Root.com's Root 100, an annual list of top Black influencers. Cooper is from Ruston, Louisiana. Career Cooper currently works as an associate professor of women's and gender studies and Africana studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She is a co-founder of the Crunk Feminist Collective and co-editor of the collection of essays of the same title, which explore intersectionality, African-American culture, and hip-hop feminism. Publications Cooper has written three books. Her first book was Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women, published in 2017 by University of Illinois Press. A book review from National Public Radio (NPR) called Beyond Respectability "a work of crucial cultural study." Cooper also co-authored and edited The Crunk Feminist Collection (published in 2017 by The Feminist Press at City University of New York) along with Susana M. Morris and Robin M. Boylorn. The book collection received positive acclaim from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Literary Hub, and Ebony. The collection is a series of essays that originated on the blog The Crunk Feminist Collective, which Cooper co-founded. In 2018, her book Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower was published by St. Martin's Press. In it, Cooper explores black feminism and anger, specifically the anger of black women, as a basis for revolutionary action. Books The Crunk Feminist Collection (2017) ISBN 1558619437 Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (2017) ISBN 0252082486 Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (2018) ISBN 1250112575 See also Ratchet feminism References External links. Discover the Brittney Cooper popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Brittney Cooper books.