AHA Session 138
Saturday, January 7, 2023: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Congress Hall B (Loews Philadelphia Hotel, 4th Floor)
Chair:
Robyn C. Spencer, Lehman College, City University of New York
Papers:
Comment:
The Audience
Session Abstract
This panel centers the global experiences of African American women and highlights the ways that travel influenced black women’s intellectual and cultural production in the first half of the 20th century. A diverse group of black women form the center of these papers: journalist and socialite Gerri Major, leftist activist Thelma Dale Perkins, and Howard university scholar Merze Tate. Collectively, they used their travels abroad to help to create a space for black women at home and abroad. In so doing, each in their own ways contributed to notions of a black global citizenship at a time when Black women's domestic citizenship rights were limited and under attack.
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