A century ago, in a worldwide web that was decidedly not digital, activists against racism and colonialism — in India, South Africa, and Black America — used print media to connect with one another. Then, as now, the most effective medium for their undertakings was the English language. "Imperfect Solidarities: Tagore, Gandhi, Du Bois, and the Forging of the Global Anglophone" (Northwestern University Press, 2020) tells the story of this interconnected Anglophone world. Through Rabindranath Tagore's writings on China, Mahatma Gandhi's recollections of South Africa, and W.E.B. Du Bois's invocations of India, "Imperfect Solidarities" theorizes print internationalism. Print internationalism creates new words within the worldwide hegemony of the English language ("the global Anglophone") in order to encourage alternate geographies (such as "the global South") and new collectivities (such as "people of color"). The women of print internationalism feature prominently. Sonja Schlesin, a Russian Jewish woman, worked with Indians in South Africa; Sister Nivedita, an Irish woman, converted to Hinduism and collaborated with a Japanese historian; and Jessie Redmon Fauset, an African American woman, published reportage on Asia that was suitable for children. Reading across races and regions, across genres and genders, Imperfect Solidarities demonstrates the utility of the neologism for postcolonial literary studies.