Keisha N Blain
Biographic Data
| ID | 1257638 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keisha N Blain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keisha N |
| FAMILY NAME | Blain |
| SIGNATURE | BLAIN K N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford University Press (United Kingdom) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
John Lewis
Imaobong D. Umoren. Race Women Internationalists
Journal Article Imaobong D. Umoren. Race Women Internationalists: Activist-Intellectuals and Global Freedom Struggles. Get access Imaobong D. Umoren. Race Women Internationalists: Activist-Intellectuals and Global Freedom Struggles. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. Pp. xvi, 193. Paper $34.95. Keisha N. Blain Keisha N. Blain Brown University, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
To Turn the Whole World Over
To Turn the Whole World Over
Black women in the United States and across the African diaspora have historically linked national concerns to global ones. This interdisciplinary collection explores the varied ways black women have engaged in internationalism since the late nineteenth century through political agitation, consumption activities and economic pursuits, leisure and religious practices, as well as performance and artistic expression. The essays in this collection em…
New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition
Set the World on Fire
In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration to West Africa. In 1937, Celia Jane Allen traveled to Jim Crow Mississippi to organize rural black workers around black nationalist causes. In the late 1940s, from her home in Kingston, Jamaica, Amy Jacques Garvey launched an extensive letter-writing campaign to defend the Greater Liberia Bill, which wo…
We will overcome whatever [it] is the system has become today
This article highlights the history of black women’s efforts to end state-sanctioned violence in New York during the 1980s. It centers on the political activities of Mary Bumpurs and Veronica Perry, two black women who led a grassroots initiative in New York City to combat police violence in black communities. Foreshadowing the kinds of activities organized by the Mothers of the Movement, Mary and Veronica joined forces to combat police brutality…
“Confraternity Among All Dark Races”
“Confraternity Among All Dark Races”:Mittie Maude Lena Gordon and the Practice of Black (Inter)nationalism in Chicago, 1932–1942 Keisha N. Blain (bio) On December 7, 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon, a black nationalist, established the Peace Movement of Ethiopia (PME) at the back of her restaurant on State Street in the “Black Belt,” the predominantly African American community on Chicago’s South Side. In the presence of her husband, William, and …
Women, Gender Politics, and Pan-Africanism
Research Article| October 01 2016 Women, Gender Politics, and Pan-Africanism Keisha N. Blain; Keisha N. Blain University of Iowa KEISHA N. BLAIN is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Iowa. She is currently completing her first book, which examines how black nationalist women engaged in national and global politics from the early twentieth century to the 1950s. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Soci…
We Want to Set the World on Fire”
Journal Article "We Want to Set the World on Fire": Black Nationalist Women and Diasporic Politics in the New Negro World, 1940–1944 Get access Keisha N. Blain Keisha N. Blain Address correspondence to Keisha N. Blain, Department of History, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242. Email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 49, Issue 1, Fall 2015, Pages…
[F]or the Rights of Dark People in Every Part of the World
This article explores the political ideas and activism of Pearl Sherrod, an African American woman who became a leader of The Development of Our Own, a Detroit-based antiracist political movement that sought to unite African Americans with people of color in Asia during the Great Depression. This article demonstrates how Sherrod articulated “black internationalist feminism” by maintaining a commitment to building transnational and transracial pol…
We Want to Set the World on Fire”
Journal Article "We Want to Set the World on Fire": Black Nationalist Women and Diasporic Politics in the New Negro World, 1940–1944 Get access Keisha N. Blain Keisha N. Blain Address correspondence to Keisha N. Blain, Department of History, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242. Email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 49, Issue 1, Fall 2015, Pages…
[F]or the Rights of Dark People in Every Part of the World
This article explores the political ideas and activism of Pearl Sherrod, an African American woman who became a leader of The Development of Our Own, a Detroit-based antiracist political movement that sought to unite African Americans with people of color in Asia during the Great Depression. This article demonstrates how Sherrod articulated “black internationalist feminism” by maintaining a commitment to building transnational and transracial pol…
We will overcome whatever [it] is the system has become today
This article highlights the history of black women’s efforts to end state-sanctioned violence in New York during the 1980s. It centers on the political activities of Mary Bumpurs and Veronica Perry, two black women who led a grassroots initiative in New York City to combat police violence in black communities. Foreshadowing the kinds of activities organized by the Mothers of the Movement, Mary and Veronica joined forces to combat police brutality…
Women, Gender Politics, and Pan-Africanism
Research Article| October 01 2016 Women, Gender Politics, and Pan-Africanism Keisha N. Blain; Keisha N. Blain University of Iowa KEISHA N. BLAIN is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Iowa. She is currently completing her first book, which examines how black nationalist women engaged in national and global politics from the early twentieth century to the 1950s. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Soci…
We Want to Set the World on Fire”
Journal Article "We Want to Set the World on Fire": Black Nationalist Women and Diasporic Politics in the New Negro World, 1940–1944 Get access Keisha N. Blain Keisha N. Blain Address correspondence to Keisha N. Blain, Department of History, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242. Email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 49, Issue 1, Fall 2015, Pages…
[F]or the Rights of Dark People in Every Part of the World
This article explores the political ideas and activism of Pearl Sherrod, an African American woman who became a leader of The Development of Our Own, a Detroit-based antiracist political movement that sought to unite African Americans with people of color in Asia during the Great Depression. This article demonstrates how Sherrod articulated “black internationalist feminism” by maintaining a commitment to building transnational and transracial pol…
“Confraternity Among All Dark Races”
“Confraternity Among All Dark Races”:Mittie Maude Lena Gordon and the Practice of Black (Inter)nationalism in Chicago, 1932–1942 Keisha N. Blain (bio) On December 7, 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon, a black nationalist, established the Peace Movement of Ethiopia (PME) at the back of her restaurant on State Street in the “Black Belt,” the predominantly African American community on Chicago’s South Side. In the presence of her husband, William, and …
Women, Gender Politics, and Pan-Africanism
Research Article| October 01 2016 Women, Gender Politics, and Pan-Africanism Keisha N. Blain; Keisha N. Blain University of Iowa KEISHA N. BLAIN is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Iowa. She is currently completing her first book, which examines how black nationalist women engaged in national and global politics from the early twentieth century to the 1950s. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Soci…
New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition
Set the World on Fire
In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration to West Africa. In 1937, Celia Jane Allen traveled to Jim Crow Mississippi to organize rural black workers around black nationalist causes. In the late 1940s, from her home in Kingston, Jamaica, Amy Jacques Garvey launched an extensive letter-writing campaign to defend the Greater Liberia Bill, which wo…
We will overcome whatever [it] is the system has become today
This article highlights the history of black women’s efforts to end state-sanctioned violence in New York during the 1980s. It centers on the political activities of Mary Bumpurs and Veronica Perry, two black women who led a grassroots initiative in New York City to combat police violence in black communities. Foreshadowing the kinds of activities organized by the Mothers of the Movement, Mary and Veronica joined forces to combat police brutality…
To Turn the Whole World Over
To Turn the Whole World Over
Black women in the United States and across the African diaspora have historically linked national concerns to global ones. This interdisciplinary collection explores the varied ways black women have engaged in internationalism since the late nineteenth century through political agitation, consumption activities and economic pursuits, leisure and religious practices, as well as performance and artistic expression. The essays in this collection em…
Imaobong D. Umoren. Race Women Internationalists
Journal Article Imaobong D. Umoren. Race Women Internationalists: Activist-Intellectuals and Global Freedom Struggles. Get access Imaobong D. Umoren. Race Women Internationalists: Activist-Intellectuals and Global Freedom Struggles. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. Pp. xvi, 193. Paper $34.95. Keisha N. Blain Keisha N. Blain Brown University, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
John Lewis
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Race, History, and American Society (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · History (5 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Nationalism (4 works) · African American women (3 works)