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01 02 This book sits at the intersection of two historical categories—empire and citizenship—that scholars usually study separately. It does so with a focus on race and racialization in the lives of four outstanding women whose careers crossed national borders between 1880 and 1965. Author Patricia Schechter offers rich and fascinating portraits of Liberian missionary Amanda Berry Smith, author Gertrude Stein, feminist arts impresario and publisher Josefina Silva de Cintrón, and labor activist Maida Springer. These portraits put an individual, intellectual, and female face on transnational topics—from missions to migration, world's fairs to unionism—that are too often recounted as male or mass phenomena. 19 02 1) FASCINATING FIGURES: The book offers a compelling and lively look at the varied lives of four genuinely distinctive women, all of them historically significant. 2) CUTTING-EDGE: Schechter is part of a relatively new movement in US history that uses transnational history to understand individual experience both within and outside the context of the nation. 3) NUANCED APPROACH: The book features truly remarkable life studies, but it avoids the celebratory tone that is easy to slip into discussing women's movements and maneuvering around national borders. 31 02 Explores two categories, empire and citizenship. It does so with a unifying focus on racialization in the lives of outstanding women whose careers crossed national borders between 1880-1965 04 02 What Comes Transnationally  A Kind of Privileged Character: Amanda Berry Smith and Race in Liberian Missions Unmaking Race: Gertrude Stein, the New Woman, and Susan B. Anthony ¡Adelante Hermanas de La Raza!: Josefina Silva de Cintrón and Puerto Rican Women's Feminismo  Becoming Mama Maida: Maida Springer in New York City and Africa  Failed Escapes and Impossible Homecomings 08 02 'Exploring the Decolonial Imaginary is intellectually daring, deeply researched, and well executed. Schechter moves transnational history to a new level.'-Thomas Bender, professor of History, New York University 'Schechter has deftly rendered the historical spaces that these four women occupied and more importantly, demonstrated why they mattered. Due to this conscientious and artful construction of contexts, her work makes it indefensible for women such as these to be left out of future studies of diaspora, citizenship, and immigration across the Atlantic world.'-Claude Clegg, professor of History, Indiana University 13 02 Patricia Schechteris a professor of History at Portland State University. 02 02 This study explores two categories—empire and citizenship—that historians usually study separately. It does so with a unifying focus on racialization in the lives of outstanding women whose careers crossed national borders between 1880 and 1965. It puts an individual, intellectual, and female face on transnational phenomena.

Pioneering African American journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) is widely remembered for her courageous antilynching crusade in the 1890s; the full range of her struggles against injustice is not as well known. With this book, Patricia Schechter restores Wells-Barnett to her central, if embattled, place in the early reform movements for civil rights, women's suffrage, and Progressivism in the United States and abroad. Schechter's comprehensive treatment makes vivid the scope of Wells-Barnett's contributions and examines why the political philosophy and leadership of this extraordinary activist eventually became marginalized. Though forced into the shadow of black male leaders such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington and misunderstood and then ignored by white women reformers such as Frances E. Willard and Jane Addams, Wells-Barnett nevertheless successfully enacted a religiously inspired, female-centered, and intensely political vision of social betterment and empowerment for African American communities throughout her adult years. By analyzing her ideas and activism in fresh sharpness and detail, Schechter exposes the promise and limits of social change by and for black women during an especially violent yet hopeful era in U.S. history.