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

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.