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Author Umoren, Imaobong Denis, 1990- author.

Title Race women internationalists : activist-intellectuals and global freedom struggles / Imaobong D. Umoren
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource
Contents 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
Summary "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
Analysis 1920s
1960s
african american
american
anticolonial
antifascist
black led
building networks
caribbean
colonialism
comparative perspective
eslanda robeson
fascism
feminist
global freedom struggles
inequality
jamaican
key leaders
mid 20th century
paulette nardal
racism
sexism
social activist
traveling
una marson
women
womens studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 13, 2018)
Subject Robeson, Eslanda Goode, 1896-1965.
Nardal, Paulette, 1896-1985.
Marson, Una
SUBJECT Marson, Una, 1905-1965 fast
Robeson, Eslanda Goode, 1896-1965 fast
Subject African American women political activists -- History -- 20th century
Women political activists -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Women political activists -- Jamaica -- History -- 20th century
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Presidents & Heads of State.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Reference.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Rich & Famous.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Royalty.
HISTORY -- Social History.
African American women political activists
Women political activists
Jamaica
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017058981
ISBN 9780520968431
0520968433