Exploring the Decolonial Imaginary Four Transnational Lives

This book sits at the intersection of two historical categoriesempire and citizenshipthat scholars usually study separately. It does so with a focus on race and racialization in the lives of four outstanding women whose careers crossed national borders between 1880 and 1965. Author Patricia Schechter offers rich and fascinating portraits of Liberian missionary Amanda Berry Smith, author Gertrude Stein, feminist arts impresario and publisher Josefina Silva de Cintron, and labor activist Maida Springer. These portraits put an individual, intellectual, and female face on transnational topicsfrom missions to migration, world's fairs to unionismthat are too often recounted as male or mass phenomena.

Patricia Schechter is a professor of History at Portland State University.