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“Sisterhood between Black and white women was indeed possible.”
Angela Davis · Women, Race & Class
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Author
Angela Davis
Source
Women, Race & Class
Chapter / location
Women, Race & Class, Chapter 1, p. 23 in the cited edition
Tradition
feminist-philosophy · angela-davis · davis · racism · feminism
Source information
From Women, Race & Class, Women, Race & Class, Chapter 1, p. 23 in the cited edition.
Translation
English translation; consult the named source edition for the original wording.
Context
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Interpretation
Davis on Racism and Feminism: verified wording, primary-work location, historical context, and a source-bounded explanation of its meaning.
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“Sisterhood between Black and white women was indeed possible.”
Author
The passage is by Angela Davis. It is presented as a short primary-source quotation, not as an anonymous maxim or a substitute for the author’s larger argument.
Source
The cited location is Women, Race & Class, Chapter 1, p. 23 in the cited edition in Women, Race & Class. Readers using a different edition should verify pagination and punctuation against that edition; the linked source or publisher record provides the documentary trail.
Context
Davis’s historical discussion examines both racism within the women’s movement and moments when Black and white women organized together.
On Davis on Racism and Feminism, the controlling intent is “davis on racism and feminism.” Women, Race & Class and Feminist Philosophy establish the documentary frame, whereas The Second Shift and The Cultural Politics Of Emotion mark the closest points of contrast or application.
Meaning
The sentence rejects inevitability: solidarity was possible, but it depended on confronting unequal interests and racist structures rather than assuming gender automatically created sisterhood.
A reader researching “davis on racism and feminism” should verify Davis on Racism and Feminism through Women, Race & Class and Feminist Philosophy. The relation to The Second Shift and The Cultural Politics Of Emotion is deliberately narrower: it opens a next question without importing that page’s answer.
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The scope test for Davis on Racism and Feminism is whether the evidence directly addresses “davis on racism and feminism.” Women, Race & Class and Feminist Philosophy support that test; The Second Shift and The Cultural Politics Of Emotion expose where a related concept may produce a different judgment.
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