Leftist Reading: Women, Race & Class Part 11

Leftist Reading

Episode 47:

This week we’re continuing our reading of Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis.
The full book is available online here:
https://archive.org/details/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavis

[Part 1 - 2]
1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD

[Part 3]
2. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS

[Part 4 - 5]
3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (first half)

[Part 6]
4. RACISM IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 7]
5. THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION ACCORDING TO BLACK WOMEN

[Part 8]
6. EDUCATION AND LIBERATION: BLACK WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVE

[Part 9]
7. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: THE RISING INFLUENCE OF RACISM

[Part 10]
8. BLACK WOMEN AND THE CLUB MOVEMENT

[Part 11 - This week]
9. WORKING WOMEN, BLACK WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
Reading - 00:24
Discussion - 23:43

[Part 12 - 13]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN

[Part 14 - 15]
11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST

[Part 16 - 17]
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

[Part 18-19]
13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE

Footnotes:
1) 00:59
Baxandall et al., op. cit., p. 83.

2) 01:13
Ibid.

3) 02:02
Wertheimer, op. cit., p. 161.

4) 02:10
Ibid.

5) 02:50
Philip S. Foner, Organized Labor and the Black Worker 1619–1973 (New York: InternationalPublishers, 1973), p. 34 (note).

6) 03:14
Ibid.

7) 04:17
“The Ballot-Bread, Virtue, Power,” Revolution, January 8, 1868. Quoted in William L. O’Neill, Everyone Was Brave: The Rise and Fall of Feminism in America (Chicago: Quadrangle, 1971), p. 19.

8) 05:20
Wertheimer, op. cit., p. 166; p. 167.

9) 06:21
“Proceedings, National Labor Union, August 1869,” Workingman’s Advocate Vol. VI, No. 5 (September 4, 1869). Quoted in Baxandall et al., op. cit., pp. 109–114.

10) 06:42
Ibid., p. 113.

11) 07:18
O’Neill, Everyone was Brave, p. 20.

12) 08:19
Ida Husted Harper, The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, Vol. 2 (Indianapolis, 1898). Quoted in Miriam Schneir, Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings (New York: Vintage Books, 1972), pp. 139–140.

13) 08:46
Schneir, op. cit., pp. 138–142.

14) 09:46
“Proceedings, National Labor Union, ...” Quoted in Baxandall et al., op. cit., p. 111.

15) 10:08
“Susan B. Anthony’s Constitutional Argument” (1873). Quoted in Kraditor, Up From the Pedestal, op. cit., p. 249.

16) 10:45
Ibid.

17) 13:13
Harper, History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 5, p. 352.

18) 14:41
Lerner, Black Women in White America, p. 446.

19) 15:08
Ibid.

20) 15:26
Ibid.

21) 16:19
Kraditor, The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement, p. 169.

22) 17:03
W. E. B. DuBois, A.B.C. of Color (New York: International Publishers, 1963), p. 56.

23) 17:22
Ibid., p. 57.

24) 17:43
Ibid., p. 58.

25) 18:22
Kraditor, The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement, p. 168.

26) 19:12
Editorial, The Crisis, IV (September, 1912), 234. Quoted in Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 1, p. 56.

27) 19:38
Ibid., pp. 56–57.

28) 19:49
The Crisis, X (August, 1915), 178–192. Quoted in Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 1, pp. 94–116.

29) 21:21
Ibid., pp. 108ff.

30) 22:15
Ibid., p. 104.

31) 23:31
Ibid., pp. 314–315.