Status Updates From Women, Race & Class

One thing still hard to grasp: *why* was eugenics so convincing/taken up so enthusiastically by women’s suffrage organizations?

Interesting the the ideal qualities of womanhood are based on white women from wealthy families, applied to/expected of ALL women, but are also in some ways explicitly bared from non-white women (socially enforced, but also economically through domestic labor & nannying work).

On Susan B. Anthony and AB’s approach (or lack thereof) to fighting for the rights of black people and black women over the overturning of the 1875 Civil Rights act & the Wilmington massacre: “[Anthony] might have realized that that a non-committal stance on racism implied that lynchings and mass murder by the thousands could be considered a neutral issue”.