عنوان

'For the freedom of the race': Black women and the practices of nationalism, 1929-1945

Number

TL48010

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

'For the freedom of the race': Black women and the practices of nationalism, 1929-1945

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First Statement of Responsibility

Keisha N. Blain

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Hunter, Tera W.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Princeton University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

258

Text of Note

Committee members: Guild, Joshua B.; Rix, Rebecca; Taylor, Ula Y.

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-28717-2

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

History

Body granting the degree

Princeton University

Text preceding or following the note

2014

Text of Note

'For the Freedom of the Race' examines how a vanguard of nationalist women leaders-Amy Jacques Garvey, Maymie De Mena, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon, Ethel M. Collins, Ethel Waddell, and Celia Jane Allen, among them-engaged in national and global politics during the 1930s and 1940s. With the effective collapse of Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)-the dominant black nationalist organization in the United States and worldwide in the immediate post-World War I era-these women leaders emerged on the local, national, and international scenes, at once drawing on Garveyism and extending it. As pragmatic activists, nationalist women formulated their own political ideas and praxis. They employed multiple protest strategies and tactics (including grassroots organizing, legislative lobbying, letter-writing campaigns, and militant protest); combined numerous religious and political ideologies (such as Freemasonry, Ethiopianism, Pan-Africanism, and Islam); and forged unlikely alliances-with Japanese activists, for instance-in their struggles against racism, sexism, colonialism, and imperialism. Drawing upon an extensive evidentiary base of primary sources including archival material, historical newspapers, and government records, my study reclaims the Great Depression and World War II as watershed moments in the history of black nationalism and sheds new light on the underappreciated importance of women in shaping black nationalist and internationalist movements and discourses during this period.

African American Studies; American history; Womens studies

Subject Term

Social sciences;Black internationalism;Black nationalism;Black radicalism;Black transnationalism;Garveyism;Pan-africanism

Triplett, Mark T.

Hunter, Tera W.

Subdivision

History

Princeton University

Call Number

1629714007; 3642063

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276903

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