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Leftist Reading: Women, Race & Class Part 2
Episode 38:
This week we’re continuing Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis.
The full book is available online here:
https://archive.org/details/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavis
Content warnings for this episode as a whole (new CW in bold):
Killing of children
Slavery
Pregnancy
Rape
Death
Torture
Racism
Blood
And abuse related to multiple of the above topics.
[Part 1]
1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD (first half)
[Part 2 – This Week]
1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD
Second half – 01:20
Discussion – 28:00
[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
[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]
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:
40) – 01:23
Angela Y. Davis, “The Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves,”Black Scholar, Vol. Ill, No. 4 (December, 1971).
41) – 03:27
Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll. See Part II, especially the sections entitled “Husbands and Fathers” and “Wives and Mothers.”
42) – 05:02
Ibid., p. 500.
43) – 05:29
Ibid.
44) – 06:03
Ibid.
45) – 06:36
Aptheker, op. cit. See pages 145, 169, 173, 181, 182, 201, 207, 215, 239, 241–242, 251, 259, 277, 281, 287.
46) – 07:06
Frederick Douglass, The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (New York: Collier; London: Collier-Macmillan Ltd., 1962). Reprinted from the revised edition of 1892. See especially Chapters 5 and 6.
47) – 07:19
Ibid., p. 46. “One of the first circumstances that opened my eyes to the cruelties and wickedness of slavery and its hardening influences upon; my old master was his refusal to interpose his authority to protect and shield a young woman, a cousin of mine, who had been most cruelly abused and beaten by his overseer in Tuckahoe. This overseer, a Mr. Plummer, was, like most of his class, little less than a human brute, and, in addition to his general profligacy and repulsive coarseness, he was a miserable drunkard, a man not fit to have the management of a drove of mules. In one of his moments of drunken madness he committed the outrage which brought the young woman in question down to my old master’s for protection.... Her neck and shoulders were covered with scars, newly made, and, not content with marring her neck and shoulders with a cowhide, the cowardly wretch had dealt her a blow on the head with a hickory club, which cut a horrible gash, and left her face literally covered with blood.
48) – 07:29
Ibid., pp. 48–49.
49) – 08:23
Ibid., p. 52
50) – 09:01
Wertheimer, op. cit., pp. 113–114. Gerda Lerner’s version of this escape is slightly different: “On Christmas Eve, 1855, six young slaves, availing themselves of a holiday and their master’s horses and carriage, left Loudoun Co, Virginia, and traveling day and night through snow and cold, arrived in Columbia two days later. Barnaby Grigby was a twenty-six year old mulatto; his wife, Elizabeth, who had had a different owner than her husband, was twenty-four years old. Her sister, Ann Wood, was engaged to the leader of the group, Frank Wanzer. Ann was twenty-two, good-looking and smart. Frank was trying to escape from a particularly bad master. There were two more young men in the group.” Lerner, op. cit., p. 57.
51) – 09:21
Sarah M. Grimke’s testimony in Theodore D. Weld, American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses (New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1839). Quoted in Lerner, op. cit., p. 19
52) – 10:05
Ibid.
53) – 10:20
Aptheker, “The Negro Woman,”p. 11
54) – 11:03
Ibid., pp. 11–12
55) – 11:27
Aptheker, “Slave Guerilla Warfare,” in To Be Free, p. 11
56) – 11:52
Aptheker, American Negro Slave Revolts, p. 259.
57) – 12:05
Ibid., p. 280.
58) – 12:30
Lerner, op. cit., pp. 32–33: “[In Natchez, Louisiana, there were] two schools taught by colored teachers. One of these was a slave woman who had taught a midnight school for a year. It was opened at eleven or twelve o’clock at night, and closed at two o’clock a.m.... Milla Granson, the teacher, learned to read and write from the children of her indulgent master in her old Kentucky home. Her number of scholars was twelve at a time, and when she had taught these to read and write she dismissed them, and again took her apostolic number and brought them up to the extent of her ability, until she had graduated hundreds. A number of them wrote their own passes and started for Canada.” Quoted from Laura S. Haviland, A Woman’s Life-Work, Labors and Experiences (Chicago: Publishing Association of Friends, 1889), pp. 300–301.
59) – 12:40
Alex Haley, Roots: The Saga of an American Family (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Co.,1976). See Chapters 66 and 67.
60) – 13:13
Sarah Bradford, Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People (New York: Corinth Books, 1961.Reprinted from the 1886 edition) Ann Petry, Harriet Tubman, Conductor on the Underground Railroad(New York: Pocket Books, 1971. First edition: 1955).
61) – 16:02
Arlene Eisen-Bergman, Women in Vietnam (San Francisco: People’s Press, 1975), p. 63.
62) – 16:13
Ibid., p. 62. “When we went through the villages and searched people, the women would have all their clothes taken off and the men would use their penises to probe them to make sure they didn’t have anything hidden anywhere; and this was raping, but it was done as searching.” Quoted from Sgt. Scott Camil, First Marine Division, in VVAW, Winter Soldier Investigation (Boston: Beacon Press, 1972), p. 13.
63) – 17:09
Ibid., p. 71. Quoted from Winter Soldier Investigation, p. 14.
64) – 18:11
Blassingame, op. cit., p. 83.
65) – 18:59
Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll, p. 415
66) – 19:16
Ibid., p. 419.
67) – 20:11
Gayl Jones, Corregidora (New York: Random House, 1975)
68) – 20:45
Frazier, op. cit., p. 69.
69) – 21:07
Ibid., p. 53.
70) – 21:39
Ibid., p. 70.
71) – 24:14
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (New York: New American Library, Signet Books, 1968), p. 27.
72) – 25:11
Ibid., p. 61.
73) – 25:58
Ibid., p. 72.
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Episode 38:
This week we’re continuing Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis.
The full book is available online here:
https://archive.org/details/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavis
Content warnings for this episode as a whole (new CW in bold):
Killing of children
Slavery
Pregnancy
Rape
Death
Torture
Racism
Blood
And abuse related to multiple of the above topics.
[Part 1]
1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD (first half)
[Part 2 – This Week]
1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD
Second half – 01:20
Discussion – 28:00
[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
[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]
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:
40) – 01:23
Angela Y. Davis, “The Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves,”Black Scholar, Vol. Ill, No. 4 (December, 1971).
41) – 03:27
Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll. See Part II, especially the sections entitled “Husbands and Fathers” and “Wives and Mothers.”
42) – 05:02
Ibid., p. 500.
43) – 05:29
Ibid.
44) – 06:03
Ibid.
45) – 06:36
Aptheker, op. cit. See pages 145, 169, 173, 181, 182, 201, 207, 215, 239, 241–242, 251, 259, 277, 281, 287.
46) – 07:06
Frederick Douglass, The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (New York: Collier; London: Collier-Macmillan Ltd., 1962). Reprinted from the revised edition of 1892. See especially Chapters 5 and 6.
47) – 07:19
Ibid., p. 46. “One of the first circumstances that opened my eyes to the cruelties and wickedness of slavery and its hardening influences upon; my old master was his refusal to interpose his authority to protect and shield a young woman, a cousin of mine, who had been most cruelly abused and beaten by his overseer in Tuckahoe. This overseer, a Mr. Plummer, was, like most of his class, little less than a human brute, and, in addition to his general profligacy and repulsive coarseness, he was a miserable drunkard, a man not fit to have the management of a drove of mules. In one of his moments of drunken madness he committed the outrage which brought the young woman in question down to my old master’s for protection.... Her neck and shoulders were covered with scars, newly made, and, not content with marring her neck and shoulders with a cowhide, the cowardly wretch had dealt her a blow on the head with a hickory club, which cut a horrible gash, and left her face literally covered with blood.
48) – 07:29
Ibid., pp. 48–49.
49) – 08:23
Ibid., p. 52
50) – 09:01
Wertheimer, op. cit., pp. 113–114. Gerda Lerner’s version of this escape is slightly different: “On Christmas Eve, 1855, six young slaves, availing themselves of a holiday and their master’s horses and carriage, left Loudoun Co, Virginia, and traveling day and night through snow and cold, arrived in Columbia two days later. Barnaby Grigby was a twenty-six year old mulatto; his wife, Elizabeth, who had had a different owner than her husband, was twenty-four years old. Her sister, Ann Wood, was engaged to the leader of the group, Frank Wanzer. Ann was twenty-two, good-looking and smart. Frank was trying to escape from a particularly bad master. There were two more young men in the group.” Lerner, op. cit., p. 57.
51) – 09:21
Sarah M. Grimke’s testimony in Theodore D. Weld, American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses (New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1839). Quoted in Lerner, op. cit., p. 19
52) – 10:05
Ibid.
53) – 10:20
Aptheker, “The Negro Woman,”p. 11
54) – 11:03
Ibid., pp. 11–12
55) – 11:27
Aptheker, “Slave Guerilla Warfare,” in To Be Free, p. 11
56) – 11:52
Aptheker, American Negro Slave Revolts, p. 259.
57) – 12:05
Ibid., p. 280.
58) – 12:30
Lerner, op. cit., pp. 32–33: “[In Natchez, Louisiana, there were] two schools taught by colored teachers. One of these was a slave woman who had taught a midnight school for a year. It was opened at eleven or twelve o’clock at night, and closed at two o’clock a.m.... Milla Granson, the teacher, learned to read and write from the children of her indulgent master in her old Kentucky home. Her number of scholars was twelve at a time, and when she had taught these to read and write she dismissed them, and again took her apostolic number and brought them up to the extent of her ability, until she had graduated hundreds. A number of them wrote their own passes and started for Canada.” Quoted from Laura S. Haviland, A Woman’s Life-Work, Labors and Experiences (Chicago: Publishing Association of Friends, 1889), pp. 300–301.
59) – 12:40
Alex Haley, Roots: The Saga of an American Family (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Co.,1976). See Chapters 66 and 67.
60) – 13:13
Sarah Bradford, Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People (New York: Corinth Books, 1961.Reprinted from the 1886 edition) Ann Petry, Harriet Tubman, Conductor on the Underground Railroad(New York: Pocket Books, 1971. First edition: 1955).
61) – 16:02
Arlene Eisen-Bergman, Women in Vietnam (San Francisco: People’s Press, 1975), p. 63.
62) – 16:13
Ibid., p. 62. “When we went through the villages and searched people, the women would have all their clothes taken off and the men would use their penises to probe them to make sure they didn’t have anything hidden anywhere; and this was raping, but it was done as searching.” Quoted from Sgt. Scott Camil, First Marine Division, in VVAW, Winter Soldier Investigation (Boston: Beacon Press, 1972), p. 13.
63) – 17:09
Ibid., p. 71. Quoted from Winter Soldier Investigation, p. 14.
64) – 18:11
Blassingame, op. cit., p. 83.
65) – 18:59
Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll, p. 415
66) – 19:16
Ibid., p. 419.
67) – 20:11
Gayl Jones, Corregidora (New York: Random House, 1975)
68) – 20:45
Frazier, op. cit., p. 69.
69) – 21:07
Ibid., p. 53.
70) – 21:39
Ibid., p. 70.
71) – 24:14
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (New York: New American Library, Signet Books, 1968), p. 27.
72) – 25:11
Ibid., p. 61.
73) – 25:58
Ibid., p. 72.