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Anna Julia Cooper lived a remarkable life. Born into slavery in 1858, Cooper was twenty-six at the time the 1885 Berlin Conference ‘formalized’ the colonization of Africa, participated in the first Pan-African Conference in London fifteen years after that, received her doctorate from the Sorbonne in 1925 (at the age of sixty-six) and lived to see the formal ‘decolonisation’ of most of Africa; dying a few months before the United States’ Civil Rights Act was passed. While Cooper is rightly celebrated as a Black feminist icon, an educator, a literary theorist, and a pioneer of Africana philosophy, less attention has been paid to her influence on (Black) Internationalism and, by extension, her (still) pioneering critiques of international law. This short essay will focus primary on two aspects of Cooper’s intellectual ouvre as they relate to international law, namely: ‘intersectionality’ and ‘racial capitalism’. |
