Angela Davis Women Race And Class Summary

Angela Davis’s Women, Race & Class demonstrates how much pain and suffering it took for white and black women, and black people to gain respect and privileges that white males in the United States were born into. In the first chapter, Davis talks about how black women in the 19th century was considered anomalies, and that they were better off “genderless”. During this time, women of different race were not equal. For example, white women were more superior than black women. However, the ideology of womanhood for black women remains becoming a house servant, a maid, a cook, or a mammy. This class structure of race still had an impact against black people after the 13th amendment which was the abolition of slavery in 1865. In the late 19th century, many people,

Ex-slave, Fredrick Douglass is a man who gave so much effort in helping black abolition and women rights yet, the concept of class and race still plays in the role during these anti-oppressive movements. With the speeches made at Seneca Falls, people were ready to fight for their rights. Eventually, women had a small step in achieving that goals with the right to vote. However, this doesn’t apply to all women. Women of color were still discriminated and were not allowed to vote, though official they were allowed. I like the motivation that Douglass gave to the people at Seneca Falls and how he influenced many to achieve their dreams. Yet, a racist ideology rises, and black people continue to suffer. White women believed that they deserved suffrage because black men were less educated, this was completely wrong because they didn’t have any opportunities to learn to write and read. The idea of white supremacy now plays a role for both white men and women, and this creates a problem for people who are black, immigrants, or