The Unsilencing: 3 Books on Women's Activism
Essays, Drama, and Poetry of Black Women's Activism, Education, and Creative ResistanceBy Anna J. Cooper, Angelina Weld Grimké, Benjamin Griffith Brawley
Length11h 33m
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The Unsilencing: 3 Books on Women's Activism gathers writing that contests the exclusion of women—especially Black women—from public, political, and intellectual life. Moving among feminist argument, lyric expression, dramatic intensity, and historical-cultural criticism, the volume reveals activism as both organized resistance and an act of voice-making. Its juxtaposition of polemical and imaginative modes gives particular force to questions of education, racial justice, gendered citizenship, and the emotional costs of silence. The collection brings together Anna J. Cooper, Angelina Weld Grimké, and Benjamin Griffith Brawley, figures situated within the rich intellectual networks of Black American letters in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Cooper's enduring importance as an educator and feminist thinker, Grimké's innovations in poetry and drama, and Brawley's work as a literary historian and critic collectively situate women's activism within broader struggles over racial uplift, cultural authority, and democratic representation. Their distinct approaches illuminate the intersections of Black feminism, the New Negro cultural milieu, and reformist political thought. Recommended for students, scholars, and general readers alike, this compact anthology offers an unusually capacious encounter with women's activism across genres and perspectives. It invites readers to trace productive tensions between argument and art, history and aspiration, while gaining a fuller understanding of how literature can preserve, amplify, and mobilize voices long constrained by social power.
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GenrePsychology, Literary Classics
Length11 hrs 33 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Voice from the South
2OUR RAISON D’ÊTRE.
3SOPRANO OBLIGATO.
4[1]WOMANHOOD A VITAL ELEMENT IN THE REGENERATION AND PROGRESS OF A RACE.
5THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN.
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6“WOMAN VERSUS THE INDIAN.”
7THE STATUS OF WOMAN IN AMERICA.
8TUTTI AD LIBITUM.
9HAS AMERICA A RACE PROBLEM; IF SO, HOW CAN IT BEST BE SOLVED?
10ONE PHASE OF AMERICAN LITERATURE.
11WHAT ARE WE WORTH?
12THE GAIN FROM A BELIEF.
13Women of Achievement
14I.
15META WARRICK FULLER
16Rachel
17CHARACTERS
18ACT I.
19ACT II.
20ACT III.
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