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Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis

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katrinkirjat's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

Naiset, rotu ja luokka on feministinen klassikkoteos, eikä syyttä. Kirjan esseet käsittelevät rasismin historiaa ja historian rasismia kattavasti monen näkökulman kautta. Kirja tekee rasismin näkyväksi monissa rakenteissa, elimissä ja tilanteissa. Se pointtaa myös feminististen liikkeissä ja pyrkimyksissä esiintyvän rasismin.

Kirja valottaa sitä, miten rasistiset ja sortavat järjestelmät toimivat, miksi ne toimivat ja mihin rasismia tarvitaan. Kirjassa myös huomautetaan esimerkiksi rasismin ja seksismin yhteydestä. Kirja tekee hyvin selväksi sen, että yhtenä isona tekijänä kaiken taustalla on kapitalismi. Kapitalismi sortaa ihmisryhmiä ja tulee aina sortamaan.

On tärkeää tuntea historiaa ja rasismin juuria, jotta ymmärtää sen syitä nykypäivänä. On tärkeä myös ymmärtää valtarakenteita, jotta ymmärtää, miksi toisilla on valtaa ja toisilla ei, ja mihin se perustuu. On myös tärkeä nähdä näitä asioita, jotta niitä voi purkaa ja ymmärtää, että monen taustalla ei ole mitään suurta totuutta vaan motiivina on vain tiettyjen tahojen vallan halu ja vallassa pysymisen tarve.

Koska kirja käsittelee rasismia ja sortoa, esseissä on paljon esimerkkejä todella brutaalista väkivallasta. Kirjassa kuvataan esimerkiksi orjien kokemaa raakaa ja julmuudessaan äärimmilleen vietyä väkivaltaa. Lisäksi kirjassa käsitellään tuhansien ihmisten kokemia lynkkauksia, raiskauksia, ihmisten monenlaista sortamista ja hyväksikäyttöä. Jutut ovat rajuja, mutta siitä huolimatta suosittelen tutustumaan teokseen.

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mookisbooks's review against another edition

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challenging sad slow-paced

4.0

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sashasghost's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

a must read for all people

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haleyshort's review against another edition

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challenging dark informative slow-paced

5.0

This woman is so incredibly brilliant and this is all still so relevant 30 years later. Especially valuable to read thinking about being in a Roe-less world again and how we can sharpen the movement based on what our sisters did before us.

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informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

A fantastic book everyone must read. Davis is truly one of the most important authors of our time. She eloquently explains how women experience the world differently depending on their race and class. She does an important job at demonstrating that feminism is not effective unless it’s intersectional. This well-researched history book also shows how all inequalities and abuses present in modern societies are products of (monopoly) capitalism. If you’re still not convinced capitalism is the source of our problems, you need to pick this up.

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dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

i was thinking 4.75 stars due to how other books have made better citations to the points brought up, but i decided to round it up to 5 stars because so much of this holds up over 4 decades later!

i listened to readings & TTS of this book. it's from 1981 (such as we don't need to refer to fiction to call out paternalism anymore. we have books like "pushout" & "they were her property". that being said the reference to fiction on that point made me realize that history was conflated with whatever white supremacist bourgeois patriarchs allowed.) so some parts are outdated, but a ton of it holds up, partly because a lot of the white supremacist dynamics within feminist movements hadn't changed. like chapter 2 on white women organizing having paternalism problems articulated the problems i'm having right now to a tee, and the other chapters gave me information about corners i need to back out of (3 point turn). this book is considered a foundation for intersectionality & uses the triple jeopardy model. basically this is a book that a lot of the people i listen to have read.

as i was reading this book i was also listening to "rest is resistance" by tricia hersey, which is giving me a lot of insight on abolitionism & preventing burnout & self-forgiveness. i mention this because this book also critiques bourgeois praxis, and that's important because to say the least of it the labor theory of value, business expansion & imperialist expansion mean the wage gap will exist as long as there is capitalism because otherwise employers wouldn't be able to figure out ranking among themselves.

this was such a good book, i wish i had been given this book instead of being offered "ain't i a woman" by bell hooks & "luna" back in elementary school. like seriously, the covers & fictionality scared me on some of those, but omg. like my transfeminism came from me being 2 years old & in reconciling why racism is bad & feminism is good figured out that the genitalia is in fact a policing stereotype as other gender stereotypes, hence girlhood is separate from genitalia, and this book was speaking to that.

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