Race Women Internationalists: Activist-Intellectuals and Global Freedom Struggles

Synopsis

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. Black And Feminist Internationalism In Interwar Europe, 1920-1935 -- The Italian Invasion Of Ethiopia, The Spanish Civil War, And Anti-fascist Internationalism, 1935-1939 -- Internationalisms During And After World War Two, 1939-1949 -- Continuities And Changes, 1950-1966. Imaobong D. Umoren. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.