Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-224) and index
Introduction: "a woman of rare courage and conviction" -- "A little more than ordinary interest in the underprivileged": Cooper's lifelong commitment to liberation -- "Life must be something more than dilettante speculation": Cooper's multidimensional praxis -- "If you object to imaginary lines--don't draw them!": Cooper's border-crossing methods -- "Failing at the most essential provision of the revolutionary ideal": lessons from France and Haiti's transatlantic struggle over abolition and égalité -- Mapping sites of power: Cooper's redefinition of "the philosophic mind" -- Tracing resistant legacies, rethinking intellectual genealogies: reflections on Cooper's Black feminist theorizing -- Notes -- References -- Index