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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.
Price: $34.95
Pages: 216
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
25 May 2018
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520295810
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
"Umoren’s diligent research and exposition of various meetings, organisations and influencers provide ample points from which to begin. . . . readers will leave Race Women Internationalists with a great deal more knowledge about Marson, Nardal and Robeson, as well as agreeing with Umoren’s foundational claim that race women internationalists warrant greater inclusion in the narratives historians will tell about anti-colonialism, feminism, socialism and Pan-Africanism in the years to come."
Imaobong D. Umoren is Assistant Professor of International History of Gender at the London School of Economics.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Black and Feminist Internationalism in Interwar Europe, 1920–1935
2. The Italian Invasion of Ethiopia, the Spanish Civil War, and Anti-Fascist Internationalism, 1935–1939
3. Internationalisms during and after World War II, 1939–1949
4. Continuities and Changes, 1950–1966
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Black and Feminist Internationalism in Interwar Europe, 1920–1935
2. The Italian Invasion of Ethiopia, the Spanish Civil War, and Anti-Fascist Internationalism, 1935–1939
3. Internationalisms during and after World War II, 1939–1949
4. Continuities and Changes, 1950–1966
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index