Book review: race women internationalists: activist-intellectuals and global freedom struggles by Imaobong D. Umoren

In Race Women Internationalists: Activist-Intellectuals and Global Freedom Struggles, Imaobong D. Umoren traces the lives of three black women activist-intellectuals—Una Marson, Paulette Nardal and Eslanda Robeson— whose work relating to race and gender reached across borders in the twentieth century. The book’s account of the lives of these ‘race women internationalists’ succeeds in showing their centrality to historical narratives about anticolonialism, feminism, socialism and Pan-Africanism, writes Bethan Johnson.