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Race Women Internationalists explores how a group of Caribbean and African American women in the early and mid-twentieth century traveled the world to fight colonialism, fascism, sexism, and racism. Based on newspaper articles, speeches, and creative fiction and adopting a comparative perspective, the book brings together the entangled lives of three notable but overlooked women: American Eslanda Robeson, Martinican Paulette Nardal, and Jamaican Una Marson. It explores how, between the 1920s and the 1960s, the trio participated in global freedom struggles by traveling; building networks in feminist, student, black-led, anticolonial, and antifascist organizations; and forging alliances with key leaders. This made them race women internationalists-figures who engaged with a variety of interconnected internationalisms to challenge various forms of inequality facing people of African descent across the diaspora and the continent.

Women political activists --- African American women political activists --- History --- Marson, Una. --- Nardal, Paulette, --- Robeson, Eslanda Goode, --- 1920s. --- 1960s. --- african american. --- american. --- anticolonial. --- antifascist. --- black led. --- building networks. --- caribbean. --- colonialism. --- comparative perspective. --- eslanda robeson. --- fascism. --- feminist. --- global freedom struggles. --- inequality. --- jamaican. --- key leaders. --- mid 20th century. --- paulette nardal. --- racism. --- sexism. --- social activist. --- traveling. --- una marson. --- women. --- womens studies.