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Race women internationalists : activist-intellectuals and global freedom struggles

Umoren, Imaobong Denis, 1990- author

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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\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Subject: Robeson, Eslanda Goode, 1896-1965. / Nardal, Paulette, 1896-1985. / Marson, Una, 1905-1965. / African American women political activists History 20th century. / Women political activists United States History 20th century. / Women political activists Jamaica History 20th century.
• ISBN: 9780520295803, 9780520295810

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HQ1236.U485 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE