Women, Race & Class Made in Ghana

Made in Ghana

the class valedictorian

and broken treaties that methodically stripped them of freedom

illiteracy and economic backwardness imposed by imperialist domination

Women, Race & Class Made in GhanaAngela Davis provides a powerful history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, from abolitionist days to the present, and demonstrates how the racist and classist biases of its leaders inevitably hampered any collective ambitions. While Black women were aided by some activists like Sarah and Angelina Grimke and the suffrage cause found unwavering support in Frederick Douglass, many women played on the fears of