Leftist Reading: Women, Race & Class Part 15

Episode 51: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/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavisContent warnings for this week:RapeLynching[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]10. COMMUNIST WOMEN• Elizabeth Gurley Flynn• Claudia Jones[Part 14]11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST- First half[Part 15 - This Week]11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST- Second half - 00:44[Part 16 - 17]12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS[Part 18-19]13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVEFootnotes:36) 01:06Ibid., p. 501.37) 01:52Ibid.38) 02:30Ibid.39) 04:16Ibid., p. 502.40) 04:45Collins, op. cit., p. 58.41) 05:38Gager and Schurr, op. cit., p. 163.42) 05:52Ibid.43) 07:00Wells-Barnett, On Lynching, p. 59.44) 08:12Foner, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 4, p. 503.45) 09:15Ibid, p. 499.46) 10:19Lynchings and What They Mean, General Findings of the Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching (Atlanta: 1931), p. 19.47) 11:08Quoted in Lerner, Black Women in White America, pp. 205–206.48) 11:20Franklin and Starr, op. cit., p. 67.49) 11:46Wells-Barnett, On Lynching, p. 57.50) 12:48Ibid., p. 8.51) 13:48Wells, Crusade for Justice, p. 149.52) 14:26Ralph Ginzburg, One Hundred Years of Lynchings (New York: Lancer Books, 1969), p. 96.53) 15:46Wells, Crusade for Justice, p. 63.54) 15:57See Chapter 8.55) 17:01Wells, Crusade for Justice, p. 218.56) 17:41Lerner, Black Women in White America, pp. 205–211.57) 18:27Ibid., p. 215.58) 19:06See Jessie Daniel Ames, The Changing Character of Lynching, 1931–1941 (New York: AMS Press, 1973).59) 19:31Ibid., p. 19.60) 20:24White, op. cit., p. 3.61) 22:23Ames, op. cit., p. 64.62) 24:09White, op. cit., p. 159.63) 24:56Foner, Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 4, p. 496.64) 25:49Brownmiller, op. cit., p. 255.65) 27:39Ibid., pp. 248–249.66) 28:41Ibid., p. 237.67) 28:59Ibid., p. 233.