Abstract
Claudia Jones was the leading theoretician on the conjuncture of women’s rights, workers’ rights, and Black rights in the Communist Party USA from 1945 to 1955. She theorized the super-exploitation of women, using the Black woman’s economic location in society, advancing the Marxist super-exploitation thesis by calling for "An End to the Neglect of the Black Woman" in Communist Party analyses of the working class and organizing networks but also in its leadership structures. One sees in Claudia Jones’s thinking and activism the advancement of Black women as leaders in struggles for freedom, worldwide.
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Boyce Davies, C. (2023). A Right to Be Radical: Claudia Jones (1915–1964) and the “Super-Exploitation of the Black Woman”. In: de Haan, F. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Communist Women Activists around the World. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13127-1_4
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