Leftist Reading: Women, Race & Class Part 9

Episode 45: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 - This week]7. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: THE RISING INFLUENCE OF RACISMReading - 00:32Discussion - 34:43[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) 02:08 Ida B. Wells, Crusade for Justice: The Auto-Biography of Ida B. Wells, edited by Alfreda M. Duster (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1970), pp. 228–229.2) 02:26Ibid.3) 03:39Ibid., p. 230.4) 04:20 Ibid.5) 04:33 See Aileen Kraditor, editor, Up From the Pedestal: Selected Writings in the History of American Feminism (Chicago: Quadrangle, 1968), For a documentary presentation of the “expediency argument,”see Part II, Chapters 5 and 6.6) 05:46 Herbert Aptheker, Afro-American History: The Modern Era (New York: The Citadel Press, 1971), p. 100.7) 06:11 Ibid.8) 07:26 Wells, op. cit., p. 100.9) 07:42 Ibid., p. 229.10) 08:13Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper, editors, History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 4 (Rochester: 1902), p. 246.11) 08:54Ibid.12) 09:39Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 2, p. 930.13) 10:03Ibid., p. 931.14) 10:15Ibid.15) 11:11Ibid., p. 248.16) 12:34Anthony and Harper, History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 4, p. 216 (note).17) 15:40Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 2, p. 813.18) 16:16Anthony and Harper, History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 4, p. 328.19) 16:40Ibid., p. 333.20) 16:53Ibid.21) 17:49Ibid., p. 34322) 18:16Aileen S. Kraditor, The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement (New York: Doubleday/Anchor, 1971), p. 143.23) 20:20Wells, op. cit., p. 100.24) 20:34Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 2, pp. 796–797; p. 798.25) 21:16Ibid., p. 789.26) 21:49Ibid., pp. 789–790.27) 22:29Ibid., p. 790.28) 23:10Ibid., p. 799.29) 26:16Ida Husted Harper, editor, History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 5 (New York: J. J. Little and Ives Co., 1902), p. 5.30) 26:23Ibid.31) 26:43Ibid.32) 27:20Ibid., p. 6.33) 27:57Ibid., p. 80.34) 28:09Ibid., p. 81.35) 28:30Papachristou, op. cit., p. 144.36) 28:42Ibid.37) 29:04Ibid.38) 29:21Ibid.39) 30:15John Hope Franklin and Isidore Starr, editors, The Negro in Twentieth Century America (New York: Vintage Books, 1967), pp. 68–69.40) 30:40Ibid., p. 40.41) 32:02Papachristou, op. cit., p. 144.42) 33:42Harper, History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 5, p. 8343) 34:19Ibid.44) 34:38Ibid.