In Brittney Cooper’s world, neither mean girls nor fuckboys ever win.

And it took another intervention, this time staged by one of her homegirls, to turn Brittney into the fierce feminist she is today. When Cooper learned of her grandmother's eloquent rage about love, sex, and marriage in an epic and hilarious front-porch confrontation, her life was changed. It reminds women that they don’t have to settle for less. It’s what makes Michelle Obama an icon.Įloquent rage keeps us all honest and accountable. It’s what makes Beyoncé’s girl power anthems resonate so hard. Black women’s eloquent rage is what makes Serena Williams such a powerful tennis player. But Cooper shows us that there is more to the story than that. In the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper reminds us that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting.įar too often, Black women’s anger has been caricatured into an ugly and destructive force that threatens the civility and social fabric of American democracy. In Stand Up! 10 Mighty Wo men Who Made a Change! is available for pre-order and will be released in March 2022.So what if it’s true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be. Stand Up! will encourage children (especially young children of color) to think about the causes and people they want to stand up for and most importantly, shows little Black girls that they are following in the footsteps of greatness. Stand Up! is very colorful with shades of yellow and orange for the background and the specific themes that the author wants the readers to take in are bolded and in a different color than the majority of the text. Wells is shown with her late 1800’s dress wear. Sketches by Cathy Ann Johnson illustrate each woman and they aren’t modernized for example, Ida B. Children reading will see themselves in these iconic women for example, Mari Copeny, Claudette Copeland and Ruby Bridges are three women identified who were children when they decided to stand up for what they believed in. At the end of each biography the author clearly defines how that particular women stood up for what they thought was right. When Cooper learned of her grandmothers eloquent rage about love, sex, and marriage in an epic and hilarious front-porch confrontation, her life was changed. Each story introduces the reader to the specific person and gives a date which is helpful to understanding just what each person was dealing with in their communities. It reminds women that they don’t have to settle for less. I like how in Stand Up!, Brittney Cooper breaks down the history of the ten women in an easy to digest way that makes the stories easy to understand for children. She was arrested for the act but South Carolina eventually was shamed into removing it permanently.īooks are provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Cardi B, Afro-Latina, and Megan Thee Stallion, part Creole, know what it’s like to be mixed.

Some children may recognize familiar names like Rosa Parks and they will be introduced to modern names like Bree Newsome who climbed a flag pole in South Carolina to take down a Confederate flag. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa. The author has selected ten classic and modern Black women who have changed the world, including Phyllis Wheatley, Prathia Hall and Mum Bett. In Stand Up! 10 Mighty Wo men Who Made a Change! author Brittney Cooper helpfully defines what it means to stand up whether it be for yourself, someone else or for a cause.

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