I quite naturally expect that the Jones notes that women in general faced “two strikes” – that of their gender, and their class status. Common Market membership. This is an important contribution Jones and her generation made to the later women’s movement, a contribution that is often ignored and misunderstood. her mother was weak and hopeless, holes in her arms, [3] Claudia Jones to William Foster, 6 December 1955. It was Black women’s exploitation that concerned Jones the most and led her to write perhaps her most well-known article “An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Women!” In many of her articles she articulated Black women’s triple oppression, but it was here that Jones laid out the issue more clearly in another admonishment meant for the CPUSA leadership.

The FBI bided its time until Jones’ deportation. A delegation of her friends and family saw her off and her friend Mildred Edelman traveled to England with her on the ship Queen Elizabeth. Jones wanted her comrades to recognize the Black woman as a worker, as Black, and as a woman, as the “most oppressed stratum.” She pointed to the tendency among Party members to use degrading language calling all Black women, despite age or status, “girl.” The tendency on the part of even radicals to ask their Black comrades if they had any family that could clean their homes, and the failure of white men to recognize Black women at all, even in social settings where they were looked over for women with light skin. the super-powers. When her papers were repatriated to the One particular idea she has been credited with popularizing was the concept of Black women’s triple oppression. In other words, long before later feminists coined the idea that politics are personal, Jones and others knew well that the home was where socialist revolution could begin and changing personal relationships there was a revolutionary act. F is for a FAIL of a social network. handwriting and made transcripts of hard-to-decipher documents to go along with http:\/\/id.loc.gov\/vocabulary\/countries\/enk> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/1010182044#Topic\/women_journalists_united_states> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/1010182044#Topic\/feminists_united_states> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/1010182044#Person\/jones_claudia_1915_1964> ; http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/1204623> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/1010182044#Topic\/women_journalists_great_britain> ; http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/1178818> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/1010182044#Event\/1900_1999> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/1010182044#Topic\/feminists_great_britain> ; http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/922831> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/1010182044#Topic\/women_and_communism_united_states_history_20th_century> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/1010182044#Topic\/women_s_rights_great_britain_history_20th_century> ; http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/1178072> ; http:\/\/id.loc.gov\/authorities\/subjects\/sh85146186> ; http:\/\/id.loc.gov\/authorities\/subjects\/sh2010118496> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/1010182044#Topic\/women_communists_great_britain> ; http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/1177508> ; http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/1177082> ; http:\/\/id.loc.gov\/authorities\/subjects\/sh2010119172> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/1010182044#Topic\/women_communists_united_states> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/1010182044#Topic\/women_and_communism_great_britain_history_20th_century> ; http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/1173950> ; http:\/\/dewey.info\/class\/335.43092\/e22\/> ; http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/1204155> ; http:\/\/worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/id\/1010182044> ; http:\/\/worldcat.org\/isbn\/9780956240163> ; http:\/\/bnb.data.bl.uk\/id\/resource\/GBB098964> ; http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/-\/oclc\/743405218> ; http:\/\/dewey.info\/class\/335.43092\/e22\/>, http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/1010182044#Event\/1900_1999>, http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/1010182044#Person\/jones_claudia_1915_1964>, http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/1010182044#Topic\/feminists_great_britain>. # Claudia Jones : beyond containment : autobiographical reflections, essays, and poems\n, # Women and communism--United States--History--20th century\n, # Women\'s rights--Great Britain--History--20th century\n, # Women\'s rights--United States--History--20th century\n, # Women and communism--Great Britain--History--20th century\n, Claudia Jones is one of my personal heroines.
Manchanda casts light on racial narratives still relevant today.