Leftist Reading: Women, Race & Class Part 13

Leftist Reading

Episode 49:

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]
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 - This Week]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN
• Elizabeth Gurley Flynn - 00:23
• Claudia Jones - 12:33
Discussion - 19:54

[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 PERSPECTIVE

Footnotes:
41) 01:08
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, The Rebel Girl: An Autobiography (New York: International Publishers,1973). p. 53.

42) 01:38
Ibid., p. 62.

43) 02:02
Richard O. Boyer, “Elizabeth Gurley Flynn,” Masses and Mainstream (May, 1952) p. 7.

44) 02:19
Ibid., p. 12.

45) 03:12
Mary Heaton Vorse, A Footnote to Folly: Reminiscences (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1935), pp. 3–4.

46) 03:58
Ibid., p. 9.

47) 04:43
Flynn, op. cit., p. 232.

48) 04:57
Ibid., p. 233.

49) 05:10
Ibid. See also Foster, History of the Communist Party, p. 116.

50) 05:53
Foner, Organized Labor and the Black Worker, p. 198.

51) 06:38
Flynn, The Rebel Girl. See editor’s note, p. 10.

52) 07:28
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, “1948—A Year of Inspiring Anniversaries for Women,” Political Affairs, Vol. XXVII, No. 3 (March, 1948), p. 264.

53) 08:01
Ibid., p. 262.

54) 08:49
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, The Alderson Story: My Life As a Political Prisoner (New York: International Publishers, 1972), p. 9.

55) 09:26
Ibid., p. 17.

56) 10:29
Ibid., pp. 17–18.

57) 11:08
Ibid., p. 32.

58) 11:30
Ibid., p. 176.

59) 12:04
Ibid., p. 180.

60) 12:21
Ibid.

61) 13:00
North, op. cit., p. 29.

62) 13:25
This article was reprinted in Political Affairs, Vol. LIII, No. 3 (March, 1974).

63) 13:50
Ibid., p. 33.

64) 14:27
Ibid.

65) 14:59
Ibid., p. 35.

66) 15:13
Ibid.

67) 15:25
Ibid.

68) 16:06
Ibid., p. 41.

69) 16:41
Ibid., p. 35.

70) 17:44
Flynn, The Alderson Story, p. 118.

71) 19:27
Ibid., p. 211.