Set the World on Fire - Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom

Keisha N. Blain is Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh.

List of contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Women Pioneers in the Garvey Movement

Chapter 2. The Struggle for Black Emigration

Chapter 3. Organizing in the Jim Crow South

Chapter 4. Dreaming of Liberia

Chapter 5. Pan-Africanism and Anticolonial Politics

Chapter 6. Breaks, Transitions, and Continuities

Epilogue

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Keisha N. Blain

Summary

Set the World on Fire highlights the black nationalist women who fought for national and transnational black liberation from the early to mid-twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Keisha N Blain, Keisha N. Blain
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780812249880
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4988-0
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Politics and Culture in Modern; Politics and Culture in Modern America; Politics and Culture in Modern America; Politics and Culture in Modern
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories