Eslanda second ed.: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson

Barbara Ransby

Eslanda second ed.: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Country
United States
Published
5 July 2022
Pages
422
ISBN
9781642595826

Eslanda second ed.: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson

Barbara Ransby

An illuminating biography of the bold, principled, and fiercely independent woman who defied convention to make her own mark on the world.

Eslanda Essie Cardozo Goode Robeson lived a colorful and amazing life. Her career and commitments took her many places: colonial Africa in 1936, the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, the founding meeting of the United Nations, Nazi-occupied Berlin, Stalin’s Russia, and China two months after Mao’s revolution. She was a woman of unusual accomplishment-an anthropologist, a prolific journalist, a tireless advocate of women’s rights, an outspoken anti-colonial and antiracist activist, and an internationally sought-after speaker. Yet historians for the most part have confined Essie to the role of Mrs. Paul Robeson, a wife hidden in the large shadow cast by her famous husband. In this masterful book, biographer Barbara Ransby refocuses attention on Essie, one of the most important and fascinating Black women of the twentieth century.

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