Leftist Reading: Women, Race & Class Part 13

Episode 49: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]9. WORKING WOMEN, BLACK WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT[Part 12]10. COMMUNIST WOMEN• Lucy Parsons - 06:58• Ella Reeve Bloor - 13:05• Anita Whitney - 20:31[Part 13 - This Week]10. COMMUNIST WOMEN• Elizabeth Gurley Flynn - 00:23• Claudia Jones - 12:33Discussion - 19:54[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:41) 01:08Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, The Rebel Girl: An Autobiography (New York: International Publishers,1973). p. 53.42) 01:38Ibid., p. 62.43) 02:02Richard O. Boyer, “Elizabeth Gurley Flynn,” Masses and Mainstream (May, 1952) p. 7.44) 02:19Ibid., p. 12.45) 03:12Mary Heaton Vorse, A Footnote to Folly: Reminiscences (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1935), pp. 3–4.46) 03:58Ibid., p. 9.47) 04:43Flynn, op. cit., p. 232.48) 04:57Ibid., p. 233.49) 05:10Ibid. See also Foster, History of the Communist Party, p. 116.50) 05:53Foner, Organized Labor and the Black Worker, p. 198.51) 06:38Flynn, The Rebel Girl. See editor’s note, p. 10.52) 07:28Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, “1948—A Year of Inspiring Anniversaries for Women,” Political Affairs, Vol. XXVII, No. 3 (March, 1948), p. 264.53) 08:01Ibid., p. 262.54) 08:49Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, The Alderson Story: My Life As a Political Prisoner (New York: International Publishers, 1972), p. 9.55) 09:26Ibid., p. 17.56) 10:29Ibid., pp. 17–18.57) 11:08Ibid., p. 32.58) 11:30Ibid., p. 176.59) 12:04Ibid., p. 180.60) 12:21Ibid.61) 13:00North, op. cit., p. 29.62) 13:25This article was reprinted in Political Affairs, Vol. LIII, No. 3 (March, 1974).63) 13:50Ibid., p. 33.64) 14:27Ibid.65) 14:59Ibid., p. 35.66) 15:13Ibid.67) 15:25Ibid.68) 16:06Ibid., p. 41.69) 16:41Ibid., p. 35.70) 17:44Flynn, The Alderson Story, p. 118.71) 19:27Ibid., p. 211.