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Women, Race & Class

  • 286 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 1981
  • 16 editions

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1 About this book

Longtime activist, author and political figure Angela Davis brings us this expose of the women's movement in the context of the fight for civil rights and working class issues. She uncovers a side of the fight for suffrage many of us have not heard: the intimate tie between the anti-slavery campaign and the struggle for women's suffrage.

She shows how the racist and classist bias of some in the women's movement have divided its own membership. Davis' message is clear: If we ever want equality, we're gonna have to fight for it together.

  • Race relations
  • Racism
  • Economic conditions
  • History
  • Economic history
  • United states, race relations
  • Sexism
  • African American women

2 About Angela Y. Davis

Born 1944

Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American Marxist feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, and author. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Davis was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), running for Vice President in the 1980 and 1984 elections under that party.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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