Leftist Reading: Women, Race & Class Part 15

Leftist Reading

Episode 51:

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

Content warnings for this week:
Rape
Lynching

[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]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN
• Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
• Claudia Jones

[Part 14]
11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST
- First half

[Part 15 - This Week]
11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST
- Second half - 00:44

[Part 16 - 17]
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

[Part 18-19]
13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE

Footnotes:
36) 01:06
Ibid., p. 501.

37) 01:52
Ibid.

38) 02:30
Ibid.

39) 04:16
Ibid., p. 502.

40) 04:45
Collins, op. cit., p. 58.

41) 05:38
Gager and Schurr, op. cit., p. 163.

42) 05:52
Ibid.

43) 07:00
Wells-Barnett, On Lynching, p. 59.

44) 08:12
Foner, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 4, p. 503.

45) 09:15
Ibid, p. 499.

46) 10:19
Lynchings and What They Mean, General Findings of the Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching (Atlanta: 1931), p. 19.

47) 11:08
Quoted in Lerner, Black Women in White America, pp. 205–206.

48) 11:20
Franklin and Starr, op. cit., p. 67.

49) 11:46
Wells-Barnett, On Lynching, p. 57.

50) 12:48
Ibid., p. 8.

51) 13:48
Wells, Crusade for Justice, p. 149.

52) 14:26
Ralph Ginzburg, One Hundred Years of Lynchings (New York: Lancer Books, 1969), p. 96.

53) 15:46
Wells, Crusade for Justice, p. 63.

54) 15:57
See Chapter 8.

55) 17:01
Wells, Crusade for Justice, p. 218.

56) 17:41
Lerner, Black Women in White America, pp. 205–211.

57) 18:27
Ibid., p. 215.

58) 19:06
See Jessie Daniel Ames, The Changing Character of Lynching, 1931–1941 (New York: AMS Press, 1973).

59) 19:31
Ibid., p. 19.

60) 20:24
White, op. cit., p. 3.

61) 22:23
Ames, op. cit., p. 64.

62) 24:09
White, op. cit., p. 159.

63) 24:56
Foner, Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 4, p. 496.

64) 25:49
Brownmiller, op. cit., p. 255.

65) 27:39
Ibid., pp. 248–249.

66) 28:41
Ibid., p. 237.

67) 28:59
Ibid., p. 233.