To Turn the Whole World Over

Keisha N. Blain teaches history at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom. Tiffany M. Gill is an associate professor of history and Africana studies at the University of Delaware. She is the author of Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry.

"These collected accounts of globetrotting black women transform and expand the concept of black internationalism. Whether traveling for political, leisure, or educational reasons, all of the women whose lives are highlighted here needed to see the world for themselves and to develop their own ideas about their places in it. Their courage and intellectual curiosity drove them to explore the world and make it theirs."--Barbara D. Savage, author of Your Spirits Walk Beside Us: The Politics of Black Religion  "To Turn the Whole World Over is a brilliant, timely, must read book for the study of black women's internationalism and the unfinished struggle for global black freedom."--Erik S. McDuffie, author of Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism  "Thorough, critical, and well-executed." --Ms. Magazine

• CoverTitleCopyrightContentsIntroduction: Black Women and the Complexities of Internationalism / Keisha N. Blain and Tiffany M.Part I: Travel and Migrations1. "We Are Negroes!" The Haitian Zambo, Racial Spectacle, and the Performance of Black Women's Internationalism, 1863-18772. Feminist Networks and Diasporic Practices: Eslanda Robeson's Travels in Africa3. Black Women's Internationalism and the Chicago Defender during the "Golden Age of Haitian Tourism"4. "Distant Ties": May Ayim's Transnational Solidarity and ActivismPart II: Creating Black Internationalism5. Thyra Edwards's Spanish Civil War Scrapbook: Black Women's Internationalist Writing6. "They Will All Be My Color": Nina Mae McKinney and Black Internationalism in 1930s Australia7. Stitched Networks: Liberian Quilters, Transatlantic Diplomacy, and CommunityPart III: Political Activism and Global Freedom Struggles8. "Confraternity Among All Dark Races": Mittie Maude Lena Gordon and the Practice of Black (Inter)nationalism in Chicago, 1932-19429. "United, We Build a Free World": The Internationalism of Mary McLeod Bethune and the National Council of Negro Women10. "What That Meant to Me": SNCC Women, the 1964 Guinea Trip, and Black Internationalism11. "A Common Rallying Call": Vicki Garvin in China and the Making of US Third World Solidarity PoliticsAfterword: Quilting the Black-Eyed PeaContributorsIndex