S4 E5: Feminism in Black and White

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Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University

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🗓️ 4 March 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

People fighting for more democracy in the United States often have to struggle against sexism and racism. In fact, those two struggles are often inseparable—certainly from the perspective of black
women and some other women of color.

Reported and produced by host John Biewen, with Season 3 co-host Celeste Headlee and Season 4 collaborator Chenjerai Kumanyika. Interviews with Glenda Gilmore, Ashley Farmer, Sandra Arrington, and
Danielle McGuire.

Music by Alex Weston, Evgueni and Sacha Galperine, and Eric Neveux. Music consulting and production help from Joe Augustine of Narrative Music.

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0:00.0	A content warning. This episode includes a description of a sexual assault.
0:06.5	So, Changer, last time we said that this episode was going to be about the New Deal, didn't we?
0:13.2	Yeah, but I feel like we're changing course.
0:16.9	Yeah, we changed course. The New Deal episode is coming, but we decided to do something else first.
0:24.4	And actually, Changer, you pointed out that an episode from our season three series on this show,
0:31.3	our series called Men, that it would make a very strong addition right here,
0:36.6	following up on our Reconstruction episode. And I got to say, I'm impressed and a little bit
0:43.0	touched that you would suggest that, given that actually you were not involved in the making of
0:48.4	the Men series. Yeah, man, it's like everybody got to hear that Men series, man. You know what I mean?
0:53.9	Come on. I learned so much from it, right? And as I just go back and listen to those episodes
1:02.8	and think about how it just changes what I thought I knew, I realized this is very much related to
1:10.7	democracy because one of the reasons that we get the story so wrong about democracy is that we
1:16.6	look in the wrong places, right? And so I feel that episode for Men really starts to correct that
1:23.9	by covering a lot of important ground about struggles against both racism and sexism in the 19th and
1:29.9	20th centuries. And you know, I mean, if you look at it, they're focusing on women fighting for
1:35.2	political participation and political power. That's true. So at the most obvious level,
1:41.8	until 1920, as we all know, certainly should know, all women in the US were denied
1:48.6	full rights as citizens. Most obviously, they're right to vote, but other rights as well, such as
1:56.9	the right to represent themselves in court, the right to own property individually. Some of those
2:02.3	things were not worked out until later. And in some ways, those are things that women are still
2:06.7	struggling for. So this episode from our men's series, which we call feminism in black and white,
2:13.6	it begins to look at those struggles starting in the posts of a war period. Now we know some of
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