Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom (Politics and Culture in Modern America) - Hardcover
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Winner of the 2019 Darlene Clark Hine Award from the Organization of American Historians
In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration to West Africa. In 1937, Celia Jane Allen traveled to Jim Crow Mississippi to organize rural black workers around black nationalist causes. In the late 1940s, from her home in...
From the Author
I faced many challenges writing this book. One of the most difficult ones to overcome was the issue of primary sources. I knew that I wanted to tell the story of how black nationalist women engaged in national and global politics in the three decades after Marcus Garvey was deported from the United States, but I wasn't quite sure how that would be possible. At the very beginning of...
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"Set the World on Fire is history at its very best. Keisha Blain has given us an unobstructed window into the minds of black nationalist women. Sharp voices and gripping stories reveal a philosophical flexibility paired with an inflexible challenge to global white supremacy."--Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning
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- PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 0812249887
- ISBN 13 9780812249880
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages264
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