Race Women Internationalists: Activist-Intellectuals and Global Freedom Struggles

By Imaobong D. Umoren

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520295811
• ISBN13: 9780520295810
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"