Reimagining Liberation - 9780252042935

Reimagining LiberationHow Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire\nAuthor(s): Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252042935, 978-0252042935\nSynopsis\nBlack women living in the French empire played a key role in the decolonial movements of the mid-twentieth century. Thinkers and activists, these women lived lives of commitment and risk that landed them in war zones and concentration camps and saw them declared enemies of the state. Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel mines published writings and untapped archives to reveal the anticolonialist endeavors of seven women. Though often overlooked today, Suzanne Csaire, Paulette Nardal, Eugnie bou-Tell, Jane Vialle, Andre Blouin, Aoua Kita, and Eslanda Robeson took part in a forceful transnational movement. Their activism and thought challenged France's imperial system by shaping forms of citizenship that encouraged m.