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Author:

Ransby, Barbara.

Title:

Eslanda : the large and unconventional life of Mrs. Paul Robeson / Barbara Ransby.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

xiii, 373 p., [35] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Robeson, Eslanda Goode,--1896-1965.
Women anthropologists--Biography.
African American anthropologists--Biography.
Robeson, Paul,--1898-1976.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-347) and index.

Contents:

Growing up along the color line, 1895-1918 -- A Harlem love story, 1919-1927 -- Onto the world stage, 1920s -- Remapping a marriage, career, and worldview, 1927-1933 -- Becoming a writer and anthropologist, 1930s -- Africa at last, 1936 -- Madrid to Moscow, political commitments deepen, 1936-1939 -- Returning home and finding a new voice, 1939-1945 -- Into the Congo, 1946 -- American arguments, 1946-1950 -- The United Nations and a world political family, 1950-1956 -- Standing tall: the Cold War and politics of repression, 1950s -- A failing body and a hopeful heart, 1958-1961 -- Always the fighter: a pen as her weapon, 1961-1965.

ISBN:

0300124341 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780300124347 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2012022359

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)