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  • Title Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
  • Author Keisha N. Blain
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 264
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Date 2018-03-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780812249880 / 0812249887
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.8 x 6.1 x 0.8 in (22.35 x 15.49 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Black History
  • Library of Congress subjects Women in politics - United States - History, African American women - Political activity
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017026795
  • Dewey Decimal Code 320.546

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Citations

  • Choice, 09/01/2018, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 02/15/2018, Page 74
  • Publishers Weekly, 12/11/2017, Page 0

About the author

Keisha N. Blain is Professor of History and Africana Studies at Brown University.
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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 Kingston, Jamaica, Amy Jacques Garvey launched an extensive letter-writing campaign to defend the Greater Liberia Bill, which would relocate 13 million black Americans to West Africa.
Gordon, Allen, and Jacques Garvey -- as well as Maymie De Mena, Ethel Collins, Amy Ashwood, and Ethel Waddell -- are part of an overlooked and understudied group of black women who take center stage in Set the World on Fire, the first book to examine how black nationalist women engaged in national and global politics from the early twentieth century to the 1960s. Historians of the era generally portray… Read More
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