Women, Race & Class -

Angela Y. Davis

Vintage Books

1983

258 páginas

8h 36m

ISBN-13: 9780307798497

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 Times

Angela 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.

Resenhas (3)

4.5 (Muito bom)

Awesome book

Angela Davis is a great read to anyone who intends to understand the intersection between patriarchy, racism and classism in the US - there are other authors who write about the topic in Brazil and South America too.

The book abranges the historical roots of these intersectional forms of oppression, their contemporary incidences, the history of the political fights against them and how they relate to each other.

Despite being a result of deep studies and containing lots of facts, it is surprisingly not hard to read. I highly recommend it.