Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson Ransby Barbara
Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson Ransby Barbara An illuminating biography of the bold, principled, and fiercely independent woman who defied convention to make her own…
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Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson Ransby Barbara
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. 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. 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.
Paul Robeson, a wife hidden in the large shadow cast by her famous husband. Yet historians for the most part have confined Essie to the role of Mrs. In this masterful book, biographer Barbara