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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 accomplishmentan 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.Chronicling Essie’s eventful life, the book explores her influence on her husband’s early career and how she later achieved her own unique p
Publisher : Yale University Press; 12.9.2012 edition (January 8, 2013)
Language : English
Hardcover : 424 pages
ISBN-10 : 0300124341
ISBN-13 : 978-0300124347
Item Weight : 1.65 pounds
Dimensions : 6.13 x 1.13 x 9.25 inches
