Leftist Reading: Women, Race & Class Part 11

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 MOVEMENTReading - 00:24Discussion - 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 PERSPECTIVEFootnotes:1) 00:59Baxandall et al., op. cit., p. 83.2) 01:13Ibid.3) 02:02Wertheimer, op. cit., p. 161.4) 02:10Ibid.5) 02:50Philip S. Foner, Organized Labor and the Black Worker 1619–1973 (New York: InternationalPublishers, 1973), p. 34 (note).6) 03:14Ibid.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) 05:20Wertheimer, 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) 06:42Ibid., p. 113.11) 07:18O’Neill, Everyone was Brave, p. 20.12) 08:19Ida 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) 08:46Schneir, 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) 10:45Ibid.17) 13:13Harper, History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 5, p. 352.18) 14:41Lerner, Black Women in White America, p. 446.19) 15:08Ibid.20) 15:26Ibid.21) 16:19Kraditor, The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement, p. 169.22) 17:03W. E. B. DuBois, A.B.C. of Color (New York: International Publishers, 1963), p. 56.23) 17:22Ibid., p. 57.24) 17:43Ibid., p. 58.25) 18:22Kraditor, The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement, p. 168.26) 19:12Editorial, The Crisis, IV (September, 1912), 234. Quoted in Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 1, p. 56.27) 19:38Ibid., pp. 56–57.28) 19:49The Crisis, X (August, 1915), 178–192. Quoted in Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 1, pp. 94–116.29) 21:21Ibid., pp. 108ff.30) 22:15Ibid., p. 104.31) 23:31Ibid., pp. 314–315.