Copyright

Francille Rusan Wilson

Published On

2019-03-08

Page Range

pp. 379-394

Language

  • English

Print Length

15 pages

31. The Roots of Black American Women’s Internationalism: Migrations of the Spirit and the Heart

  • Francille Rusan Wilson (author)
Chapter of: Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History (pp. 379–394)

Francille Rusan Wilson’s ‘The Roots of Black American Women’s Internationalism: Migrations of the Spirit and the Heart’ examines Black women activists’ travel and writing from the late nineteenth to the mid twentieth century. She considers how their exposure to international debates on decolonisation, women’s rights, and missionary work helped to reshape the worldviews of Black American women’s organisations, and expanded their conception of the possibility of sisterhood and common struggles across continents.

Contributors

Francille Rusan Wilson

(author)
Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, and History at University of Southern California

Francille Rusan Wilson is an intellectual and labor historian whose research examines the intersections between black labor movements, black intellectuals, and black women's history during the Jim Crow era. Her book, The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890–1950 (2006) is a collective biography of the world and works of fifteen scholar-activists. The Segregated Scholars was awarded the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Prize for the best book in black women's history by the Association of Black Women Historians. Wilson's works in progress include a study of the impact of racism and sexism on black women lawyers and social scientists before the Civil Rights Act and a history of black history movements, 1890–2015. She is Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, and History at the University of Southern California and the current National Director of the Association of Black Women Historians.