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Sojourning for Freedom portrays pioneering black women activists
from the early twentieth century through the 1970s, focusing on
their participation in the U.S. Communist Party (CPUSA) between
1919 and 1956. Erik S. McDuffie considers how women from diverse
locales and backgrounds became radicalized, joined the CPUSA, and
advocated a pathbreaking politics committed to black liberation,
women’s rights, decolonization, economic justice, peace, and
international solidarity. McDuffie explores the lives of black left
feminists, including the bohemian world traveler Louise Thompson
Patterson, who wrote about the “triple exploitation” of race,
gender, and class; Esther Cooper Jackson, an Alabama-based civil
rights activist who chronicled the experiences of black female
domestic workers; and Claudia Jones, the Trinidad-born activist who
emerged as one of the Communist Party’s leading theorists of
black women’s exploitation. Drawing on more than forty oral
histories collected from veteran black women radicals and their
family members, McDuffie examines how these women negotiated race,
gender, class, sexuality, and politics within the CPUSA. In
Sojourning for Freedom, he depicts a community of radical black
women activist intellectuals who helped to lay the foundation for a
transnational modern black feminism.
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