What is Crunk Feminist Collective? Blog founder Brittney Cooper's racist rant goes viral
Brittney Cooper, the Rutgers University professor whose anti-White tirade has made waves on the internet, runs a feminist blog online tackling subjects such as intersectionality, African-American culture, patriarchy, misogyny, anti-Blackness and hip hop feminism.
MEAWW previously reported how the professor faced calls to be fired from Rutgers after she said White people needed to be "taken out" during a discussion on critical race theory. We also reported how Cooper, 40, grabbed headlines last year after claiming Trump supporters were responsible for African-Americans dying at a disproportionate rate from Covid.
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What is the Crunk Feminist Collective?
The Crunk Feminist Collective blog was founded in 2010 by activists Cooper, Susana M Morris, and Robin M Boylorn. They posted a series of essays about hip-hop culture, patriarchy, political theory and personal experiences that were later compiled into a book titled the 'Crunk Feminist Collection' published in 2017 by Feminist Press. The collection features introductions written by the editors to frame some of the themes addressed and also includes popular essays written by members Sheri Davis-Faulkner, Aisha Durham, Eesha Pandit, Rachel Raimist and Chanel Craft Tanner.
The website is said to attract more than a million readers for its opinion pieces that include 'Ben Carson’s Shame', 'Misogyny and Infamy: The Erasure of Dark Skinned Black Women as Love Interests in Straight Outta Compton' and 'Fish Dreams'. The founders of CFC claim to widen the conversation of gender and race beyond the White-dominated mainstream by presenting academic feminism through an African-American lens. In its mission statement, CFC aspires to hold space for the experience of “hip hop generation feminists of color, queer and straight, in the academy" by omitting traditional theory to address the history and genealogy of Black feminism, specifically.
“Some people ask ‘Why can’t we all just be feminists? Why do we have to categorize?’ But we can’t erase our differences,” Dr Boylorn, an associate professor of Interpersonal and Intercultural Communication at the University of Alabama, told Connect Savannah in 2017. “I think it goes back to identity politics — the primary issues of White women have never been the issues of women of color. In the second-wave feminism of the '60s, you have women fighting to work, but Black women were already working, often for those White women! That has to be acknowledged.”
Boylorn told the outlet at the time that feminists who are not women of color are also welcome to join, but they wouldn't get to "design the context." “We see our primary audience as women of color, but that does not exclude White women who want to be better allies. People who engage our work understand that we appreciate the necessity of White allies in this movement, but the way allyship works, it’s not about you,” she added. “Crunk Feminist Collective is about black feminists, and many of the White women who engage us want to learn what they can do better.”
Kirkus Reviews called the 'Crunk Feminist Collection' a "valuable record of a growing cultural awareness of feminist issues and criticism, particularly for women of color," but said the contributors appeared to "favor anecdotal evidence rather than a more substantive argument."