Race Women Internationalists

Activist-Intellectuals and Global Freedom Struggles

von Imaobong D. Umoren

212 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: University of California Press
• ISBN: 9780520295810
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.05.2018
• Größe: 228 x 149 mm
• Verlag: UCAL POD