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]
3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (first half)

[Part 5]
3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN
Second half Reading – 00:20
Discussion – 24:15

[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:

34) – 00:22
Wertheimer, op. cit., p. 104.

35) – 01:33
Lerner, The Grimke Sisters, p. 159.

36) – 02:08
Ibid., p. 158.

37) – 02:29
For the text of Maria Stewart’s 1833 speech, see Lerner, Black Women in White America, pp. 563ff.

38) – 02:39
Lerner, Black Women in White America, p. 83. Also Flexner, op. cit., pp. 44–45.

39) – 03:34
Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 1, p. 89.

40) – 04:56
Douglass, op. cit., p. 268.

41) – 05:42
Walker, op. cit., p. 26.

42) – 06:40
Foner, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 2, p. 19.

43) – 07:14
Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 1, pp. 115–117.

44) – 08:19
Ibid.

45) – 08:28
Ibid.

46) – 08:56
Ibid.

47) – 09:47
Ibid.

48) – 10:00
Ibid.

49) – 10:09
Ibid.

50) – 10:34
Ibid.

51) – 10:44
Ibid.

52) – 11:17
Ibid.

53) – 12:14
Ibid.

54) – 12:48
Ibid.

55) – 14:19
Ibid., pp. 567–568 (complete text of speech). Also see Lerner, Black Women in White America, pp.566ff,

56) – 15:25
John Hope Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom (New York: Vintage Books, 1969), p. 253.

57) – 16:00
Sillen, op. cit., p. 86. See also section on Harper.

58) – 17:17
Foster, op. cit., pp. 115–116.

59) – 18:46
Flexner, op. cit., p. 108.

60) – 19:03
Ibid.

61) – 20:00
Foster, op. cit., p. 261.

62) – 21:13
Gurko, op. cit., p. 211.

63) – 21:42
Lerner, The Grimke Sisters, p. 353.

64) – 22:03
Ibid., p. 354.

65) – 22:21
Ibid.

66) – 23:19
Ibid.