Leftist Reading: Women, Race & Class Part 9

Leftist Reading

Episode 45:

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 - This week]
7. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: THE RISING INFLUENCE OF RACISM
Reading - 00:32
Discussion - 34:43

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

[Part 11]
9. WORKING WOMEN, BLACK WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[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) 02:08
Ida B. Wells, Crusade for Justice: The Auto-Biography of Ida B. Wells, edited by Alfreda M. Duster (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1970), pp. 228–229.

2) 02:26
Ibid.

3) 03:39
Ibid., p. 230.

4) 04:20
Ibid.

5) 04:33
See Aileen Kraditor, editor, Up From the Pedestal: Selected Writings in the History of American Feminism (Chicago: Quadrangle, 1968), For a documentary presentation of the “expediency argument,”see Part II, Chapters 5 and 6.

6) 05:46
Herbert Aptheker, Afro-American History: The Modern Era (New York: The Citadel Press, 1971), p. 100.

7) 06:11
Ibid.

8) 07:26
Wells, op. cit., p. 100.

9) 07:42
Ibid., p. 229.

10) 08:13
Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper, editors, History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 4 (Rochester: 1902), p. 246.

11) 08:54
Ibid.

12) 09:39
Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 2, p. 930.

13) 10:03
Ibid., p. 931.

14) 10:15
Ibid.

15) 11:11
Ibid., p. 248.

16) 12:34
Anthony and Harper, History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 4, p. 216 (note).

17) 15:40
Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 2, p. 813.

18) 16:16
Anthony and Harper, History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 4, p. 328.

19) 16:40
Ibid., p. 333.

20) 16:53
Ibid.

21) 17:49
Ibid., p. 343

22) 18:16
Aileen S. Kraditor, The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement (New York: Doubleday/Anchor, 1971), p. 143.

23) 20:20
Wells, op. cit., p. 100.

24) 20:34
Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 2, pp. 796–797; p. 798.

25) 21:16
Ibid., p. 789.

26) 21:49
Ibid., pp. 789–790.

27) 22:29
Ibid., p. 790.

28) 23:10
Ibid., p. 799.

29) 26:16
Ida Husted Harper, editor, History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 5 (New York: J. J. Little and Ives Co., 1902), p. 5.

30) 26:23
Ibid.

31) 26:43
Ibid.

32) 27:20
Ibid., p. 6.

33) 27:57
Ibid., p. 80.

34) 28:09
Ibid., p. 81.

35) 28:30
Papachristou, op. cit., p. 144.

36) 28:42
Ibid.

37) 29:04
Ibid.

38) 29:21
Ibid.

39) 30:15
John Hope Franklin and Isidore Starr, editors, The Negro in Twentieth Century America (New York: Vintage Books, 1967), pp. 68–69.

40) 30:40
Ibid., p. 40.

41) 32:02
Papachristou, op. cit., p. 144.

42) 33:42
Harper, History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 5, p. 83

43) 34:19
Ibid.

44) 34:38
Ibid.