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Learning is becoming an urgent topic. Nations worry about the learning of their citizens, companies about the learning of their …
Longtime activist, author and political figure Angela Davis brings us this expose of the women's …
As a cis-male, reading this book gave me a lot of insight to the lives women faced tracing back to slavery to modern day. It was important for me to read this because I want to be a better feminist. The people I read about I will never forget. Prudence Crandall and Ida B. Wells are some of them. They fought against the grain and that gives me inspiration to fight against the rising powers of fascism. I learned about the abolition movement and how women pioneered it. I learned about the suffrage movement and how it was once a force of nature and how it then became a racist movement. I learned about the beginnings of racism and sexism in the United States. This book gave me the basic knowledge I can then educate other cis-men who don't know about these movements. I want to thank Davis for making …
As a cis-male, reading this book gave me a lot of insight to the lives women faced tracing back to slavery to modern day. It was important for me to read this because I want to be a better feminist. The people I read about I will never forget. Prudence Crandall and Ida B. Wells are some of them. They fought against the grain and that gives me inspiration to fight against the rising powers of fascism. I learned about the abolition movement and how women pioneered it. I learned about the suffrage movement and how it was once a force of nature and how it then became a racist movement. I learned about the beginnings of racism and sexism in the United States. This book gave me the basic knowledge I can then educate other cis-men who don't know about these movements. I want to thank Davis for making this a read I can understand. I also want to thank all the women who changed the world. I also want to thank the women I know in my personal life. I also want to thank my mom for giving me life.
Longtime activist, author and political figure Angela Davis brings us this expose of the women's movement in the context of …
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the …
A new world based on fairness, participation, accountability is closer than you think if you learn to think like a …
In this classic study, Reich provides insight into the phenomenon of fascism, which continues to …
I’ve read this before but I want to try and see if I can read two books at once. I thought I’d make it easy and read something I’ve read before but want to take more notes on.
The Zapatista Army for National Liberation burst onto the world stage on 1 January 1994. Zapatista commander Subcomandante Marcos announced …
Longtime activist, author and political figure Angela Davis brings us this expose of the women's …
Since they were victims of capitalist exploitation, said Parsons, Black people and women, no less than white people and men, should devote all their energies to the class struggle.
— Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis (Page 153)
The humanist in me agrees with this.
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History …
I've read this before but I want to read it again and annotate the book.
A moving exploration of how gay men construct their identities, fight to be themselves, and live authentically.
It goes without …
Longtime activist, author and political figure Angela Davis brings us this expose of the women's …
This book so far has empowered me to learn more about the history of oppression and how to fight back. It's not that I didn't know much about those times, but how much information wasn't discussed when I was initially learning about slavery and women's plight for suffrage. I'm very happy with myself that I've taken the time to read this with great pace.
Longtime activist, author and political figure Angela Davis brings us this expose of the women's …
Now woman suffrage was represented as the most expedient means to achieve racial supremacy.
— Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis (Page 125)
If white women, who at the time were understanding that their place in the world was to be the mothers of the race, were given suffrage, they can vote along with their white supremacist males and dominate the US. These white supremacists knew that if they allowed women to vote based on literacy, they knew they could make it so Black people and the indigenous were kept illiterate therefore they cannot vote. 'Everyone is represented, but only those who can read and write. Not my fault you can't read nor write.' is the vibe I'm getting.
