Umoren, Imaobong 
ORCID: 0000-0002-0633-3223
(2018)
Race women internationalists: activist-intellectuals and global freedom struggles.
University of California Press, Oakland, CA.
ISBN 9780520295810
Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Official URL: | https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=978052029581... |
| Additional Information: | © 2018 The Author |
| Divisions: | International History |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Jun 2018 16:17 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 21:58 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/88347 |
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