What Was the Black International?
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on February 16, 2024
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Relationships were the essence of the early twentieth century “black international.”
In Paris, the Martinician writer Jane Nardal took to her typewriter to make sense of a pattern she was witnessing. She observed that, while the First World War had in one sense brought blacks together, it was only to share a sense of disillusionment. They were no longer just colonial subjects. But exile, dispossession, and the expectation to assimilate brought . . .
