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Anna Julia Cooper: “Dedicated in the Name of My Slave Mother to the Education of Colored Working People”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2020
Abstract
The achievements of Anna Julia Cooper are extraordinary given her life circumstances. Driven by a desire Cooper called “a thumping within,” she became a prominent educator, earned her Ph.D., and influenced the thought of W.E.B. DuBois and others. Cooper fought for her educational philosophy, but despite her contributions, her apparent elitism has shaped contemporary assessments of her work. I argue that her views must be considered in social and historical context.
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- Hypatia , Volume 19 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Women in the American Philosophical Tradition 1800-1930 , Spring 2004 , pp. 56 - 73
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- Copyright © 2004 by Hypatia, Inc.
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