Women, Race and Class is a 1981 book by the American academic and author Angela Davis.

[1][3][4] Angela Davis was born in Alabama, United States, in 1944 as the oldest of four children in a black middle-class family.

She was an activist from an early age, inspired by female parental figures who opposed the Jim Crow laws, and became involved with socialist groups and Marxism–Leninism.

After completing a master's degree, she began teaching philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles.

She was repeatedly fired over her political beliefs and jailed for two years for purchasing guns later used by revolutionary Jonathan P. Jackson, being released in 1972 and later acquitted.

[4] Race & Class reviewers critiqued that some questions are "left unanswered", particularly in regard to the Marxist analysis omitting discussion of women's relations to use value and exchange value in a capitalist economy, and not accounting for the fact that women's "subordination to" wage labor would be undesirable.