Leftist Reading: Women, Race & Class Part 7

Episode 43: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/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavisConfent warnings this episode for:Sexual assaultMurder[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 - This Week]5. THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION ACCORDING TO BLACK WOMENReading - 00:37Discussion - 25:31[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: 1) 01:26DuBois, Darkwater, p. 113.2) 02:18Wertheimer, op. cit., p. 228.3) 04:07Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 2, p. 747. “Tenant Farming in Alabama, 1889” from The Journal of Negro Education XVII (1948), pp. 46ff.4) 04:46Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 2, p. 689. Texas State Convention of Negroes, 1883.5) 05:15Ibid., p. 690.6) 05:37Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 2, p. 704. Founding Convention of Afro-American League, 1890.7) 05:54DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America, p. 698.8) 06:16Ibid.9) 06:45Ibid., p. 699.10) 06:57Ibid., p. 698.11) 08:20Aptheker, A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States, Vol. 1 (Secaucus, N.J.: The Citadel Press, 1973), p. 46. “A Southern Domestic Worker Speaks,”The Independent, Vol. LXXII (January 25, 1912).12) 08:42Ibid., p. 46.13) 09:05Ibid., p. 47.14) 09:20Ibid., p. 50.15) 10:20Ibid.16) 10:50Ibid., p. 49.17) 11:16Ibid.18) 11:42Ibid.19) 11:56Ibid.20) 12:14Lerner, Black Women in White America, p. 462. “The Colored Women’s Statement to the Women’s Missionary Council, American Missionary Association.”21) 12:46Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 1, p. 49.22) 13:28DuBois, Darkwater, p. 116.23) 13:52Ibid., p. 115.24) 14:05Isabel Eaton, “Special Report on Negro Domestic Service” in W. E. B. DuBois, The Philadelphia Negro (New York: Schocken Books, 1967. First edition: 1899), p. 427.25) 14:23Ibid.26) 14:47Ibid., p. 428.27) 15:03Ibid.28) 15:20Ibid., p. 465.29) 15:34Ibid., p. 484.30) 15:50Ibid., p. 485.31) 16:20Ibid.32) 17:00Ibid., p. 484.33) 17:45Ibid., p. 449. Eaton presents evidence which “... points to the probability that among women in domestic service at least, there is no difference between ‘white pay and black pay,’ ...”34) 18:43Lerner, Black Women in White America, pp. 229–231. Louise Mitchell, “Slave Markets Typify Exploitation of Domestics,”The Daily Worker, May 5, 1940.35) 18:58Gerda Lerner, The Female Experience: An American Documentary (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977), p. 269.36) 19:14Ibid., p. 268.37) 19:32Wertheimer, op. cit., pp. 182–183.38) 19:46Lerner, Black Women in White America, p. 232.39) 22:00Inez Goodman, “A Nine-Hour Day for Domestic Servants,”The Independent, Vol. LIX (February 13, 1902). Quoted in Baxandall et al., op. cit., pp. 213–214.40) 23:29Lerner, The Female Experience, p. 268.41) 23:55Jacquelyne Johnson Jackson, “Black Women in a Racist Society,”in Charles Willie et al., editors, Racism and Mental Health (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1973), p. 236.42) 24:44Ibid.43) 25:10DuBois, Darkwater, p. 115.