Leftist Reading: Women, Race & Class Part 8

Episode 44: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 - This Week]6. EDUCATION AND LIBERATION: BLACK WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVEReading - 00:18Discussion - 21:59[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) 00:30DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America, Chapter V.2) 00:46Ibid., p. 122.3) 01:15Ibid., p. 124.4) 01:46Ibid.5) 02:04Ibid.6) 02:20Ibid., p. 123.7) 02:34Douglass, op. cit., p. 79.8) 02:50Ibid.9) 04:02Watkins and David, op. cit., p. 18.10) 04:52Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 1, p. 493.11) 05:46Ibid., p. 19.12) 05:54Ibid.13) 06:44Wertheimer, op. cit., pp. 35–36.14) 07:04Lerner, Black Women in White America, p. 76.15) 07:23See Chapter 2.16) 07:32Foner, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 4, p. 553 (note 16).17) 07:50Ibid., pp. 371ff.18) 08:48Ibid., p. 372.19) 09:17Ibid.20) 09:48Ibid., p. 371.21) 10:22Ibid.22) 10:46Flexner, op. cit., p. 99.23) 11:21Ibid., pp. 99–101.24) 11:43Foner, op. cit., Vol. 4, p. 373.25) 13:49Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 1, pp. 157–158.26) 14:45Ibid.27) 15:26William Goodell, The American Slave Code (New York: American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1853), p. 321. Quoted in Elkins, op. cit., p. 60.28) 15:35Ibid.29) 16:09Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll, p. 565.30) 16:31Lerner, Black Women in White America, pp. 27ff. and pp. 99ff.31) 16:51Ibid., pp. 32ff.32) 17:02DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America, p. 123.33) 17:28Lerone Bennett, Before the Mayflower (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1969), p. 181.34) 17:42Foster, op. cit., p. 321.35) 18:07DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America, p. 638.36) 18:49Lerner, Black Women in White America, p. 102.37) 19:06Ibid., p. 103.38) 19:37Ibid.39) 19:48Ibid., pp. 104–105.40) 20:10Franklin, op. cit., p. 308.41) 21:31DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America, p. 667.