Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis

Trade paperback format.  A powerful study of the women’s liberation movement in the U.S., from abolitionist days to the present, that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders. From the widely revered and legendary political activist and scholar Angela Davis. “As useful an exposition of the current dilemmas of the women’s movement as one could hope for.”–Los Angeles Times Book Review Table Of Contents 1. The Legacy of Slavery: Standards for a New Womanhood2. The Anti-Slavery Movement and the Birth of Women’s Rights3. Class and Race in the Early Women’s Rights Campaign4. Racism in the Woman Suffrage Movement5. The Meaning of Emancipation According to Black Women6. Education and Liberation: Black Women’s Perspective7. Woman Suffrage at the Turn of the Century: The Rising Influence of Racism8. Black Women and the Club Movement9. Working Women, Black Women, and the History of the Suffrage Movement10. Communist Women11. Rap