Description
| Product ID: | 9780520295810 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Race Women Internationalists |
| Subtitle: | Activist-Intellectuals and Global Freedom Struggles |
| Authors: | Author: Imaobong D. Umoren |
| Page Count: | 216 |
| Subjects: | Social and cultural history, Social & cultural history, Gender studies: women and girls, Ethnic studies, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Gender studies: women, Ethnic studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | University of California Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of California Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-05-25 |
