Anna Julia Cooper: an Afroamerican Woman Between Pan-Africanism, Atlaticism and Orientalism
Keywords:
Anna Julia Cooper, Atlanticism, Pan-Africanism, Orientalism, Afroamerican feminism
Abstract
Anna Julia Copper’s life can be considered as the epitome of a continuous sense of estrangement that was translated into intellectual and moral agency, into leadership in the field of education as a vehicle for social, economic, political freedom, into intense community work, and into major activism in black women’s rights organizations. She experienced estrangement on several fronts: towards her condition as a black woman, ex-slave, and the subordinate role often reserved for Afro-American women even within the communities to which they belonged; towards her sense of citizenship in a Western country considered the bulwark of democracy, in which segregation and racial violence were a daily reality; against a nationalism from which she felt distant, as a convinced supporter of Pan-Africanism and a global black community.
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Edwards, Brent Hayes, The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2003.
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Gruesser, John Cullen, Confluences. Postcolonialism, African American Literary Studies, and the Black Atlantic, Athens, The University of Georgia Press, 2005.
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Johnson, Karen A., “The Educational Leadership of Anna Julia Haywood Cooper”, Avancing Women in Leadership Online Journal, 22, (Winter 2007), https://issuu.com/advancingwomeninleadershipjournal/docs/2_11d7c421440717.
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Published
2022-06-16
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Vezzosi, E. (2022). Anna Julia Cooper: an Afroamerican Woman Between Pan-Africanism, Atlaticism and Orientalism. Between, 12(23), 383-400. https://doi.org/10.13125/2039-6597/5258
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