Race Women Internationalists: Activist-Intellectuals and Global Freedom Struggles

Race Women Internationalists explores how a group of Caribbean and African American women in the early and mid-twentieth century traveled the world to fight colonialism, fascism, sexism, and racism. Based on newspaper articles, speeches, and creative fiction and adopting a comparative perspective, the book brings together the entangled lives of three notable but overlooked women: American Eslanda Robeson, Martinican Paulette Nardal, and Jamaican Una Marson. It explores how, between the 1920s and the 1960s, the trio participated in global freedom struggles by traveling; building networks in feminist, student, black-led, anticolonial, and antifascist organizations; and forging alliances with key leaders. This made them race women internationalists--figures who engaged with a variety of interconnected internationalisms to challenge various forms of inequality facing people of African descent across the diaspora and the continent.

Author: Imaobong D. Umoren
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 05/25/2018
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780520295810
ISBN10: 0520295811
BISAC Categories:
- History | Social History
- Social Science | Black Studies (Global)
- Social Science | Women's Studies

About the Author
Imaobong D. Umoren is Assistant Professor of International History of Gender at the London School of Economics.