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...

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Beteilige Person: Umoren, Imaobong Denis 1990- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Oakland, California University of California Press [2018]
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Zusammenfassung:"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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Umfang:xvi, 193 Seiten
ISBN:9780520295803
9780520295810