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Author Ransby, Barbara.

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

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
©2013

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B ROBESON    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 ROBESON, ESL    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  B-ROBESON, E.    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 373 pages, 36 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 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 -- 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 -- Teh 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.
Subject Robeson, Eslanda Goode, 1896-1965.
Women anthropologists -- United States -- Biography.
African American anthropologists -- Biography.
Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976.
ISBN 9780300124347 cloth alkaline paper
0300124341 cloth alkaline paper
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