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Paul Robeson : artist and citizen / edited and with an introduction by Jeffrey C. Stewart.

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press : Paul Robeson Cultural Center, c1998.

xxxviii, 331 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976.

African American singers -- Biography.

African American actors -- Biography.

African American political activists -- Biography.

Stewart, Jeffrey C., 1950-

Paul Robeson Cultural Center.

Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum.

"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.

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.

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