Reading 2: Cooper (in Lemert 2018)
Introduction to Anna Julia Cooper
The colored womans office
Questions:
6. How does Cooper see the role of the Black woman? ( and throughout the text).
7. Who could and who could not represent the black race, according to Cooper, and why?

8. In what ways does Cooper describe a kind of multiple consciousness? (Lemert, page 9;
Cooper
9. What does Cooper mean by the assertion that, The all will inevitably stick in the throat of
the Southern woman?