Beyond Respectability Quotes

“Black women's leadership memoirs have been a critical site for the articulation of their intellectual and political goals. Less concerned with the interiority of their subjects, this genre afforded Black women, particularly those who emerged during the 1890s, the opportunity to theorize about race and gender politics in ways that their lack of access to producing more formal academic texts did not. (68)”
― Brittney Cooper, Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women

“Anti respectable in its rejection of traditional gender roles, Blackhood as a form of revolutionary, queer, Black racial sociality, had the potential-and indeed even the intrinsic demand-to formulate new ideas about the performance of Black gender identities. (137)”
― Brittney Cooper, Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women