In this classic work the famous communist activist, who was jailed for her beliefs, brings her passion and scholarship to confront three major crucial issues of feminism: women, race and class.
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'A classic whose power and prescience never fail to astound' -- Bonnie Greer
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Angela Y Davis was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1944. She graduated magna cum laude from Brandeis University and pursued graduate studies at the Goethe Institute in Frankfurt and the University of California, San Diego. She has been a member of the Communist Party, USA, since 1968 and has twice run as its presidential candidate. Acquitted on conspiracy charges in 1972, follwing one of the most famous trials in US history, Davis has energed as an internationally regarded writer, scholar, lecturer and fighter for human rights.
Today, Angela Y Davis is a tenured professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Proportionately, more Black woman have always worked outside their homes than have their white sisters. Read the first page
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A fascinating look at the women's movement
5 Dec 2002
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This book, or at least excerpts from it, should be a must read for everyone. Davis presents a side of the suffragette movement, the first wave of feminism, that many people will never be aware of--the conflict between women's rights and African American rights, and the underlying racism of the movement spearheaded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Davis then effectively juxtaposes the first wave of feminism with the second wave of feminism in the 1960-70's to show the correlation between the two movements.
In both cases, the fight for African American rights took prescedence over the rights of women. While during the first wave of feminism, black women were ignored by the suffragettes, during the second wave of feminism, black women were faced with the choice of going forward in a women's movement that, once again, didn't really include them, or supporting the rights of African Americans as a race. A difficult choice. Davis clearly elucidates the failings of the both waves of feminism to include ALL women and shows how necessary it is for women, regardless of race, to work together.
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Prof. Davis clarifies the history of all three struggles.
17 Mar 1997
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Professor Davis provides a history of the Black, Women's and workers' movements in the US and documents the many points of common contact. She painstakingly supplies an abundance of historical evidence that demonstrates the fact that women, working people or people of color can only succeed in the attainment of their own liberation by working in conjuction with the efforts of the others. She also reminds us that the majority of women are workers and that the majority of people of color are workers, and points out that the outcome of the struggle these groups face will impact directly upon the future condition of all working people
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An excellent read for acedemic as well as personal growth.
6 Oct 1999
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If you are interested in an indepth analysis of the history of many of our current social movements this is the book for you. Angela Davis is brillient to be sure, but this book portrays her intelligence in understanding (and ability to convey) the conplex issues America must disern concerning gender, class and race. She also is able to articulate beautifully how these three issues intertwine. The book is worth the read for personal as well as acedemic growth.
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