The Young Paul Robeson by Lloyd L Brown

The Young Paul Robeson by Lloyd L Brown

Famous as a football star and prizewinning student, then acclaimed as a world-class concert singer and record-breaking actor on stage and screen, Paul Robeson became one of Americas most controversial figures during the Cold War. Now for the first time there is an illuminating, firsthand view of this remarkable African American by a writer who is uniquely qualified to tell the story of Robesons development. A close friend and coworker of Robesons for twenty-five years, Lloyd L. Brown, has combined painstaking research with insightful personal observation in the study of Robesons remarkable life and achievements. }Famous as a football star and prizewinning student, then acclaimed as a world-class concert singer and record-breaking actor on stage and screen, Paul Robeson became one of Americas most controversial figures during the Cold War. Hailed by many as a forerunner of the civil rights movement, he was denounced by others and seen by the U. S. government as a threat to the nations security at home and abroad.Now for the first time there is an illuminating, firsthand view of this remarkable African American by a writer who is uniquely qualified to tell the story. A close friend and coworker of Robesons for twenty-five years, Lloyd L. Brown assisted in the writing of Robesons book Here I Stand. Now he has combined painstaking research with personal observation in his own book, The Young Paul Robeson. He brings to the work a graceful and engaging literary style developed over his many years as an essayist and critic on African-American literature and culture.Reflecting on interviews with Robesons schoolmates in elementary school, high school, Rutgers University, and Columbia Law School and drawing on original information from other sources, Brown provides a well-paced narrative of Robesons life, from his birth in Princeton to the budding of his artistic career in Harlem. Because Robeson always attributed his achievements to the guiding hand of his slave-born father, the Reverend William D. Robeson, Brown traced Robesons ancestral roots to North Carolina, where he found and interviewed cousins of Robeson as well as descendants of the family that had owned his father and his grandparents. Browns discovery of how William Robeson escaped to freedom and gained academic excellence is one of the many aspects of the Paul Robeson legend told here for the first time. }

LLOYD L. BROWN was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He became a labor organizer in the early 1930s, participating in the organization of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). He was Managing Editor of the Weekly New Masses and an associate editor of the cultural monthly Masses and Mainstream. He died in 2003. ALAN WALD is Professor in the English Department and Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan, and author of Exiles from a Future Time (2002). RICHARD YARBOROUGH, editor of the Northeastern Library of Black Literature, is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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ISBN 13	9780813331782
ISBN 10	0813331781
Titel	The Young Paul Robeson
Autor	Lloyd L Brown
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Verlag	Taylor & Francis Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	1997-01-02
Seitenanzahl	224
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