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 perspect...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2018]
|
| Subjects: |
| Summary: | "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"--Provided by publisher. |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | xvi, 193 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520295810 0520295811 9780520295803 0520295803 |