{"id":43857,"date":"2015-11-08T21:25:56","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T21:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43857"},"modified":"2016-03-25T21:38:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T21:38:09","slug":"eslanda-the-large-and-unconventional-life-of-mrs-paul-robeson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43857","title":{"rendered":"Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/yalebooks.com\/book\/9780300205855\/eslanda\" target=\"_blank\">Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yalebooks.com\" target=\"_blank\">Yale University Press<\/a><br \/>\n2013-01-08<br \/>\n424 pages<br \/>\n64 b\/w illus.<br \/>\n6 1\/8 x 9 1\/4<br \/>\nCloth ISBN: 9780300124347<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uic.edu\/depts\/wsweb\/people\/faculty\/ransby\/ransby.html\" target=\"_blank\">Barbara Ransby<\/a><\/strong>, Professor, Gender and Women&#8217;s Studies, African American Studies &amp; History<br \/>\n<em>University of Illinois, Chicago<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yalebooks.com\/book\/9780300205855\/eslanda\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yalebooks.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/book_jacket\/public\/imagecache\/external\/5f1322ae3155cbde3f180160ef2983b4.jpg?itok=3ozM3ORB\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Won Honorable Mention for the 2013 Southern California Book Festival, in the Biography\/Autobiography category, sponored by JM Northern Media LLC.<\/li>\n<li>Won an Honorable Mention for the 2013 New England Book Festival given by the JM Northern Media Family of Festivals, in the Biography\/Autobiography Category.<\/li>\n<li>Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2013 in the North America Category.<\/li>\n<li>Won a Honorable Mention for the 2014 Los Angeles Book Festival in the Biography\/Autobiography Category.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eslanda_Goode_Robeson\" target=\"_blank\">Eslanda &#8220;Essie&#8221; Cardozo Goode Robeson<\/a> lived a colorful and amazing life. Her career and commitments took her many places: colonial Africa in 1936, the front lines of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spanish_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\">Spanish Civil War<\/a>, the founding meeting of the United Nations, Nazi-occupied Berlin, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Stalin\" target=\"_blank\">Stalin&#8217;s<\/a> Russia, and China two months after <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chinese_Communist_Revolution\" target=\"_blank\">Mao&#8217;s revolution<\/a>. She was a woman of unusual accomplishment\u2014an anthropologist, a prolific journalist, a tireless advocate of women&#8217;s rights, an outspoken anti-colonial and antiracist activist, and an internationally sought-after speaker. Yet historians for the most part have confined Essie to the role of Mrs. Paul Robeson, a wife hidden in the large shadow cast by her <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Robeson\" target=\"_blank\">famous husband<\/a>. In this masterful book, biographer Barbara Ransby refocuses attention on Essie, one of the most important and fascinating black women of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n<p>Chronicling Essie&#8217;s eventful life, the book explores her influence on her husband&#8217;s early career and how she later achieved her own unique political voice. Essie&#8217;s friendships with a host of literary icons and world leaders, her renown as a fierce defender of justice, her defiant testimony before <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_McCarthy\" target=\"_blank\">Senator Joseph McCarthy&#8217;s<\/a> infamous <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Army%E2%80%93McCarthy_hearings\" target=\"_blank\">anti-communist committee<\/a>, and her unconventional open marriage that endured for over 40 years\u2014all are brought to light in the pages of this inspiring biography. Essie&#8217;s indomitable personality shines through, as do her contributions to United States and twentieth-century world history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson Yale University Press 2013-01-08 424 pages 64 b\/w illus. 6 1\/8 x 9 1\/4 Cloth ISBN: 9780300124347 Barbara Ransby, Professor, Gender and Women&#8217;s Studies, African American Studies &amp; History University of Illinois, Chicago Won Honorable Mention for the 2013 Southern California Book Festival, in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,11,459,8,17,25],"tags":[21827,21829,21828,1424],"class_list":["post-43857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-women","tag-barbara-ransby","tag-eslanda-cardozo-goode-robeson","tag-eslanda-goode-robeson","tag-yale-university-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43857"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46239,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43857\/revisions\/46239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}