The author recognizes these forms as an embodied discourse, which predominates in Cooper’s work. She fundamentally believed that we cannot divorce Black women’s bodies from the theory they produce. In Voice, Cooper places the Black female body and all that it knows squarely in the center of the text’s methodology. They include: 1) a commitment to seeing the Black female body as a form of possibility and not a burden, and 2) a commitment to centering the Black female body as a means to cathect Black social thought. To understand this methodological approach, one needs to first become acquainted with two of Cooper’s cardinal commitments. Beyond Respectability employs an Anna Julia Cooperian approach to reading and interrogating the theoretical work and lived experiences of Black women intellectuals.
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