Davis criticizes that the women's liberation movement has been run by and for white middle class women, to the exclusion of black women, other women of color and other social classes. She applies Marxist analysis to the relation of class and race to capitalism in America. Women, Race and Class is a collection of 13 essays about the American women's liberation movement from the 1960s up to the point at which the book was published, and also about slavery in the United States. It followed If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance (1971), a collection of writings edited by Davis, including contributions in which she discusses her experiences in prison, and Angela Davis: An Autobiography (1974), which was about the civil rights movement and its impact on her ideology. The 1981 work Women, Race and Class was Davis' third book. Jackson, being released in 1972 and later acquitted. She was repeatedly fired over her political beliefs and jailed for two years for purchasing guns later used by revolutionary Jonathan P. After completing a Master's degree, she began teaching philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. She later studied under the philosopher Herbert Marcuse and joined the Black Panther Party and Communist Party USA in the late 1960s. She attended Brandeis University, majoring in French. She was an activist from an early age, inspired by female parental figures who opposed the Jim Crow laws, and became involved with socialist groups and Marxism–Leninism.

Background Īngela Davis was born in Alabama, United States, in 1944 as the oldest of four children in a black middle-class family. history from the slave trade and abolitionism movements to the women's liberation movements which began in the 1960s. The third book written by Davis, it covers U.S. It contains Marxist feminist analysis of gender, race and class. Women, Race and Class is a 1981 book by the American academic and author Angela Davis.

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