812.092 R653Pau-1
Title(s) Paul Robeson : artist and citizen / edited and with an introduction by Jeffrey C. Stewart.
Publisher New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press : Paul Robeson Cultural Center, c1998.
Paging xxxviii, 331 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Notes "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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-314) and index.
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.