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Armstead, Shauni Tiara Adrienne. Imagined solidarities: Black liberal internationalism and the National Council of Negro Women from Afro-Asian to Pan-African unity, 1935-1975. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-81vp-df27

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TitleImagined solidarities: Black liberal internationalism and the National Council of Negro Women from Afro-Asian to Pan-African unity, 1935-1975
NameArmstead, Shauni Tiara Adrienne (author); Cobble, Dorothy Sue (chair); White, Deborah G (member); Koven, Seth (member); Ikeya, Chie (member); Blain, Keisha N. (member); Rutgers University; School of Graduate Studies
Date Created2023
Other Date2023-05 (degree)
SubjectHistory, African American studies, Women's studies, African American history, Afro-Asian solidarity, Gender, Internationalism, Pan-Africanism, Transnationalism
Extent324 pages : illustrations
Description“Imagined Solidarities” examines Black women’s efforts to reform liberal internationalism in the mid-twentieth century. Focusing on one of the largest African American women’s organizations, the National Council of Negro Women (the Council), I show how women such as Sue Bailey Thurman, Mary McLeod Bethune, Edith Sampson, Vivian Carter Mason, Dorothy Ferebee, and Dorothy Height pursued racial and gender justice domestically and worldwide through collaboration with Asian, African, and African-descended women. Council women forged friendships and political partnerships with Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and Rustomji Faridoonji of India, Begum Ra’ana Liaquat Ali Khan of Pakistan and with prominent African and African-descended women activists including Flora Azikiwe of Nigeria and Evelyn Amarteifio of Ghana. These collaborations had political consequences domestically and internationally. At the same time, Council women reimagined liberalism through what I call a pleasurable internationalism. I argue that their worldviews and commitments to American identity and US hegemony complicated, limited, and, at times, even thwarted these efforts. I apply Black feminist theoretical frameworks on a multi- archival source base that combines personal and organizational papers as well as published memoirs. My approach reveals how Council leaders and their allies relied on the intimate domain for their attempts to make the world anew. By studying Council leaders and their allies, I expand scholarship on twentieth-century Black internationalism that focuses primarily on Black radical and male liberal activists. In so doing, I offer an account of sustained international activities beginning before World II, continuing through the anticommunist suppression of the 1950s to the 1975 United Nations-sponsored International Women’s Year activities.
NotePh.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-81vp-df27
LanguageEnglish
CollectionSchool of Graduate Studies Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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