Published in 1982,
But Some of Us Are Brave
was the first-ever Black women's studies reader and a foundational text of contemporary feminism.
Featuring writing from eminent scholars, activists, teachers, and writers, such as the Combahee River Collective and Alice Walker,
All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave
challenges the absence of Black feminist thought in women’s studies, confronts racism, and investigates the mythology surrounding Black women in the social sciences.
As the first comprehensive collection of Black feminist scholarship,
was recognized by Audre Lorde as “the beginning of a new era, where the ‘women’ in women’s studies will no longer mean ‘white.’”
Coeditors
Akasha (Gloria T.) Hull
,
Patricia Bell-Scott
, and
Barbara Smith
are authors and former women's studies professors.
Brittney C. Cooper
is a professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of several books, including
Eloquent Rage
, named by Emma Watson as an Our Shared Shelf read for November/December 2018.