Women, Race & Class
Where the abolitionist and suffrage movements broke along race and class, and who paid for it.
Davis’s 1981 study rereads the abolitionist and suffrage movements to show where they broke along race and class lines, and why the women’s movement that emerged so often failed Black women and working women. It is historical argument rather than polemic, and the chapter on rape and racism reshaped how the subject is discussed.
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