Paul Robeson - A Life of Activism and Art

Paul Robeson: A Life of Activism and Art is the biography of an African American icon and a demonstration of historian Lindsey R. Swindall's knack for thorough, detailed research and reflection.

List of contents

Chapter One: Scholar Athlete
Chapter Two: Renaissance Man
Chapter Three: World Citizen
Chapter Four: People's Artist
Chapter Five: Cold Warrior
Chapter Six: Final Curtain

About the author

Lindsey R. Swindall earned her doctorate in Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is a teaching assistant professor in the College of Arts and Letters at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. She has also written: The Politics of Paul Robeson's Othello and The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World: Southern Civil Rights and Anticolonialism, 1937-1955. She is co-editor of American Appetites: A Documentary Reader.

Summary

Paul Robeson: A Life of Activism and Art is the biography of an African American icon and a demonstration of historian Lindsey R. Swindall's knack for thorough, detailed research and reflection.

Product details

• Authors: Lindsey R Swindall, Lindsey R. Swindall
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2015
• EAN: 9781442207943
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-0794-3
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Library of African American Biography; Library of African American Bi; Library of African American Bi; Library of African American Biography
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; USA, Ethnic Studies, Music, MUSIC / General, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Biography: arts & entertainment, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Politics & government, United States of America, USA, Politics and government, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Biography: arts and entertainment, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional, African American history;American Studies