Interview: Cooper, Brittney, 2015
Item
- Resource class
- Interview
- Title
- Interview: Cooper, Brittney, 2015
- Type
- Interview
- Interviewee
- Cooper, Brittney
- Birth Year
- 1980
- Birth Place
- Louisiana
- Interviewer
- Murti, Meera
- Kulkarni, Bhupali
- Location Created
- New Brunswick, New Jersey
- Date Created
- 2015
- Abstract
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Brittney Cooper is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. She is a Black feminist theorist who specializes in the study of Black women’s intellectual history, Hip Hop generation feminism, and race and gender representation in popular culture. Dr. Cooper is also a sought-after public speaker and commentator, her work and words have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, TV Guide, the Los Angeles Times, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry Show, All In With Chris Hayes, Disrupt with Karen Finney, and Third Rail on Al-Jazeera America, among many others. She is also a co-founder of the Crunk Feminist Collective, a popular feminist blog. Dr. Brittney Cooper is a proud alumna of Howard University (class of 2002) and a proud native of North Louisiana.
In this interview, Dr. Cooper speaks about her day-to-day work as an Assistant Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies departments. Including her work as a “hip hop feminist” and the book she had just finished at the time "Race Women: Gender and the Making of a Black Public Intellectual Tradition"(published as: "Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women"). She continues with speaking about her experiences as a Black Woman in her field and the challenges she faces, the different types of activism she partakes in, and ends the interview speaking about her college experience and the lessons she has learned. - Source Project Description
- This interview was conducted by IWL Leadership Scholars as part of an ongoing intergenerational interview program at the Institute for Women's Leadership. Since the inception of the Leadership Scholars Certificate Program in the fall of 1999, students have conducted annual interviews with outstanding women leaders. Select transcripts from the collection are accessible on the IWL website.
- Collection
- Women's Leadership Interview Archives
- Repository
- Institute for Women's Leadership (IWL), Rutgers University–New Brunswick
- Rights
- For permission to use interview excerpts from the Women's Leadership Interview Archive, contact the Institute for Women's Leadership at Rutgers University–New Brunswick at info@iwl.rutgers.edu.
- Related Resource
- Women's Leadership Interview Archives
- IWL Leadership Scholars
- Brittney Cooper (Wikipedia)
- Subject
- Institute for Women's Leadership (Rutgers)
- Rutgers Faculty
- Rutgers University-New Brunswick
- Africana Studies
- Feminism
- Professors
- Black Lives Matter
- Women's Leadership
- Identifier
- IWL-Cooper
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