VIDEO : « Sex, Race and Class » — Extended Interview with Selma James on Her Six Decades of Activism

selma james : sexe/race/classe

In this extended interview, Selma James takes us through six decades of her trailblazing activism, from the writing of her seminal 1952 essay “A Woman’s Place,” which she penned with encouragement from the late West Indian scholar C.L.R. James, who later became her husband, to today’s SlutWalk protests in London, England. Among her many acts of #resistance over the years, James recounts how she sat with masked prostitutes in 1982 as they occupied a church to protest police abuses. She discusses her late husband, C.L.R. James, and how she joined his Johnson-Forest Tendency as a teenager and later worked with him in the Caribbean. Finally, she weighs in on today’s #Occupy movement and the imprisonment of Mumia Abu-Jamal, whose book she edited. “The fact that so many people are in prison in the United States not only shapes the lives of millions ... but it means that the whole society is much more repressive, because the standards of prison are constantly imprisoning the rest of us,” she says.

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