Leftist Reading: Women, Race & Class Part 5

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 CAMPAIGNSecond half Reading – 00:20Discussion – 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 PERSPECTIVEFootnotes:34) – 00:22Wertheimer, op. cit., p. 104.35) – 01:33Lerner, The Grimke Sisters, p. 159.36) – 02:08Ibid., p. 158.37) – 02:29For the text of Maria Stewart’s 1833 speech, see Lerner, Black Women in White America, pp. 563ff.38) – 02:39Lerner, Black Women in White America, p. 83. Also Flexner, op. cit., pp. 44–45.39) – 03:34Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 1, p. 89.40) – 04:56Douglass, op. cit., p. 268.41) – 05:42Walker, op. cit., p. 26.42) – 06:40Foner, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 2, p. 19.43) – 07:14Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 1, pp. 115–117.44) – 08:19Ibid.45) – 08:28Ibid.46) – 08:56Ibid.47) – 09:47Ibid.48) – 10:00Ibid.49) – 10:09Ibid.50) – 10:34Ibid.51) – 10:44Ibid.52) – 11:17Ibid.53) – 12:14Ibid.54) – 12:48Ibid.55) – 14:19Ibid., pp. 567–568 (complete text of speech). Also see Lerner, Black Women in White America, pp.566ff,56) – 15:25John Hope Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom (New York: Vintage Books, 1969), p. 253.57) – 16:00Sillen, op. cit., p. 86. See also section on Harper.58) – 17:17Foster, op. cit., pp. 115–116.59) – 18:46Flexner, op. cit., p. 108.60) – 19:03Ibid.61) – 20:00Foster, op. cit., p. 261.62) – 21:13Gurko, op. cit., p. 211.63) – 21:42Lerner, The Grimke Sisters, p. 353.64) – 22:03Ibid., p. 354.65) – 22:21Ibid.66) – 23:19Ibid.