ABSTRACT
Anna Julia Cooper goes into some detail on the identification of the petits blancs with the white landholders, even if that identification was somewhat at odds with their own interests, and she is at her best when she notes the further complications added by the failure of many freed blacks or mulattoes to identify with the slaves. If, as much contemporary feminist analysis both in ethics and in politics has advised, it is the case that the feminist lines of thought yield room for multiple voices and eschew a view from nowhere, Cooper more than meets the target here by pushing for a complex evaluation of multi-faceted situation. Part of the reason that feminist political theory was among the later constructions of feminist philosophy to gain ground in the academy probably has a great deal to do with the status of political theory itself. Work on Cooper has emphasized, understandably, the writings that she produced above and beyond a.
