Exploring the decolonial imaginary
Subtitle: four transnational lives
By: Patricia A. Schechter
Series: Palgrave Macmillan transnational history series; Palgrave Macmillan transnational history series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780230338777
Subjects: Transnationalism; Biography; Minority women; Ethnic relations
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: What comes transnationally; title: A kind of privileged character: Amanda Berry Smith and race in Liberian missions; title: Unmaking race: Gertrude Stein, the New Woman, and Susan B. Anthony; title: ¡Adelante hermanas de la raza! Josefina Silva de Cintrón and Puerto Rican women's feminismo; title: Becoming Mama Maida: Maida Springer in New York City and Africa; title: Conclusion: Failed escapes and impossible homecomings.