Paul Robeson : artist and citizen
Title:
Paul Robeson : artist and citizen
Author:
Stewart, Jeffrey C., 1950-
Publication Information:
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press : Paul Robeson Cultural Center, [1998]
©1998
Physical Description:
xxxviii, 331 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
General Note:
"This book has been published in conjunction with the Paul Robeson Centennial Project, organized by the Paul Robeson Cultural Center of Rutgers University"--T.p. verso.
Book to accompany the multimedia traveling exhibition, Paul Robeson: artist and citizen held at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum of Rutgers, April-July 1998 and other institutions.
Language:
English
Contents:
Happy Black boy / Lloyd L. Brown -- Paul Robeson : an athlete's legacy / Francis C. Harris -- Doing the state some service : Paul Robeson and the endless quest for racial justice / Derrick Bell -- The image and Paul Robeson / Deborah Willis -- Troubled relations : Robeson, Eugene O'Neill, and Oscar Micheaux / Charles Musser -- Paul Robeson, musician / Doris Evans McGinty and Wayne Shirley -- Robeson and Othello / Martin Duberman -- The Black body : Paul Robeson as a work of art and politics / Jeffrey C. Stewart -- Race, working-class consciousness, and dreaming in Africa : song of freedom and Jericho / Mark A. Reid -- Paul Robeson and the American labor movement / Mark D. Naison -- Comrades and friends : the personal/political world of Paul Robeson / Gerald Horne -- Paul Robeson and the U.S.S.R. / David Levering Lewis -- Paul Robeson : a bibliophile in spite of himself / Charles L. Blockson -- What is Robeson's contemporary legacy? / Julianne Malveaux -- Black stars in exile : Paul Robeson, O.J. Simpson, and Othello / Ed Guerrero -- Paul Robeson, icon for the twenty-first century / John Hope Franklin.
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ISBN:
9780813525105
9780813525112
Format :
Book
