Episode 44:

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 - This Week]
6. EDUCATION AND LIBERATION: BLACK WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVE
Reading - 00:18
Discussion - 21:59

[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:
1) 00:30
DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America, Chapter V.

2) 00:46
Ibid., p. 122.

3) 01:15
Ibid., p. 124.

4) 01:46
Ibid.

5) 02:04
Ibid.

6) 02:20
Ibid., p. 123.

7) 02:34
Douglass, op. cit., p. 79.

8) 02:50
Ibid.

9) 04:02
Watkins and David, op. cit., p. 18.

10) 04:52
Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 1, p. 493.

11) 05:46
Ibid., p. 19.

12) 05:54
Ibid.

13) 06:44
Wertheimer, op. cit., pp. 35–36.

14) 07:04
Lerner, Black Women in White America, p. 76.

15) 07:23
See Chapter 2.

16) 07:32
Foner, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 4, p. 553 (note 16).

17) 07:50
Ibid., pp. 371ff.

18) 08:48
Ibid., p. 372.

19) 09:17
Ibid.

20) 09:48
Ibid., p. 371.

21) 10:22
Ibid.

22) 10:46
Flexner, op. cit., p. 99.

23) 11:21
Ibid., pp. 99–101.

24) 11:43
Foner, op. cit., Vol. 4, p. 373.

25) 13:49
Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 1, pp. 157–158.

26) 14:45
Ibid.

27) 15:26
William Goodell, The American Slave Code (New York: American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1853), p. 321. Quoted in Elkins, op. cit., p. 60.

28) 15:35
Ibid.

29) 16:09
Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll, p. 565.

30) 16:31
Lerner, Black Women in White America, pp. 27ff. and pp. 99ff.

31) 16:51
Ibid., pp. 32ff.

32) 17:02
DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America, p. 123.

33) 17:28
Lerone Bennett, Before the Mayflower (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1969), p. 181.

34) 17:42
Foster, op. cit., p. 321.

35) 18:07
DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America, p. 638.

36) 18:49
Lerner, Black Women in White America, p. 102.

37) 19:06
Ibid., p. 103.

38) 19:37
Ibid.

39) 19:48
Ibid., pp. 104–105.

40) 20:10
Franklin, op. cit., p. 308.

41) 21:31
DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America, p. 667.