Exploring the Decolonial Imaginary

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction

   • Patricia A. Schechter

   Pages 1-10

3. A Kind of Privileged Character

   • Patricia A. Schechter

   Pages 11-48

4. Unmaking Race

   • Patricia A. Schechter

   Pages 49-89

5. ¡Adelante Hermanas de La Raza!

   • Patricia A. Schechter

   Pages 91-127

6. Becoming Mama Maida

   • Patricia A. Schechter

   Pages 129-167

7. Conclusion

   • Patricia A. Schechter

   Pages 169-172

8. Back Matter

   Pages 173-266

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This study explores two categories—empire and citizenship—that historians usually study separately. It does so with a unifying focus on racialization in the lives of outstanding women whose careers crossed national borders between 1880 and 1965. It puts an individual, intellectual, and female face on transnational phenomena.

• Africa
• Empire
• individual
• New York City
• women

'An important book, one which challenges the standard geographical boundaries for U.S. women's history (and American history more broadly) and adds to our understanding of the complex ways in which women have engaged with U.S. imperialism.' - American Historical Review

'Exploring the Decolonial Imaginary is intellectually daring, deeply researched, and well executed. Schechter moves transnational history to a new level.' - Thomas Bender, professor of History, New York University

'Schechter has deftly rendered the historical spaces that these four women occupied and more importantly, demonstrated why they mattered. Due to this conscientious and artful construction of contexts, her work makes it indefensible for women such as these to be left out of future studies of diaspora, citizenship, and immigration across the Atlantic world.' - Claude Clegg, professor of History, Indiana University

PATRICIA SCHECHTER is a professor of History at Portland State University, USA.

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