num_pages: 271
description: From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the women’s liberation movement and the tangled knot of oppression facing Black women."Angela Davis is herself a woman of undeniable courage. She should be heard." —The New York TimesAngela Davis provides a powerful history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, from abolitionist days to the present, and demonstrates how the racist and classist biases of its leaders inevitably hampered any collective ambitions. While Black women were aided by some activists like Sarah and Angelina Grimke and the suffrage cause found unwavering support in Frederick Douglass, many women played on the fears of white supremacists for political gain rather than take an intersectional approach to liberation. Here, Davis not only contextualizes the legacy and pitfalls of civil and women's rights activists, but also discusses Communist women, the murder of Emmitt Till, and Margaret Sanger's racism. Davis shows readers how the inequalities between Black and white women influence the contemporary issues of rape, reproductive freedom, housework and child care in this bold and indispensable work.
language: English
title: Women, Race & Class
titlecomplete: Women, Race & Class
characters: Mary Church Terrell, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Prudence Crandall, Lucretia Mott, Carrie Chapman Catt, George Downing, Anna Garlin Spencer, Susie King Taylor, Sarah Remond, Anna Jones, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Susan B. Anthony, William McKinley, Margaret Douglass, Margaret Garner, Francis J. Grimke, Lucy Terry Prince, Dr. Susan McKinner, Lucy Stone, Mrs. John Jones, Angelina Grimké, Myrtilla Miner, Belle Kearney, William Lloyd Garrison, Ida B. Wells, Prince Hall, Victoria Matthews, Margaret Murray Washington, Charlotte Woodward, Fannie Barrier Williams, Jenny Proctor, W. E. B. DuBois, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Gertrude Mossell, Henry Browne Blackwell, Mary Talbert, Robert H. Terrell, Leonora O'Reilly, Karl Marx, Charlotte Forten, Jane Lewis, Lottie Wilson Jackson, Charles W. Chesnutt, Henry Ward Beecher, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Mary Chase, Nathaniel P. Rogers, Charles Remond, Edward Merrick, Mary S. Carey, Mary McCleod Bethune, George Francis Train, Katy Ferguson, Sarah Moore Grimké, Benjamin Brawley, Sojourner Truth, Frances E.W. Harper, Maritcha Lyons, Sarah Garnett, Frances Dana Barker Gage, James Brooks, Frederick Douglass
genres: Gender, Social Justice, History, Sociology, Politics, Race, Theory, Nonfiction, Feminism, Anti Racist
ratings_count: 26434
publisher: Vintage