New Brunswick: Rutgers UP and The Paul Robeson Cultural Center.Stewart, Jeffrey C., ed. Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP and The Paul Robeson Cultural Center, 1998. 369 pp. $40.00 cloth/$22.00 paper. Martin Duberman's massive biography is the fullest record of Paul Robeson's remarkable life and career, but Jeffrey Stewart's handsome oversized o·ver·sizen. 1. A size that is larger than usual. 2. An oversize article or object. adj. o·ver·size also o·ver·sized Larger in size than usual or necessary. paperback volume is richly satisfying. John Hope Franklin Noun 1. John Hope Franklin - United States historian noted for studies of Black American history (born in 1915) Franklin , David Levering Lewis David Levering Lewis is an American historian and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, for part one and part two of his biography of W.E.B. Du Bois (in 1994 and 2001, respectively). , Lloyd Brown, Derrick Bell, Martin Duberman, and Gerald Home are among the distinguished contributors of sixteen substantial essays on various aspects of Robeson's multifaceted life and activities. Best of all, though, are the 227 black-and-white illustrations and the fourteen color plates. This volume belongs in the library of every reader of African American Review The African American Review is a quarterly journal and the official publication of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association. . |
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