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Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary: Revolutionary Lives

Autor Gerald Horne
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 ian 2016
***Winner PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Book Award***

“A fine, taut analysis of the great African American athlete, singer, actor, and political activist.”
Choice, Highly Recommended
 
Paul Robeson should be remembered today as the forerunner of Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Muhammad Ali. He sacrificed his fame and fortune a performer and athlete in order to fight for the rights of African Americans during the time of Jim Crow and U.S. Apartheid.
 
A world-famous singer and actor, a trained lawyer, an early star of American professional football and a polyglot who spoke over a dozen languages: these could be the crowning achievements of a life well-lived. Yet for Paul Robeson the higher calling of social justice led him to abandon both the NFL and Hollywood and become one of the most important political activists of his generation, a crusader for freedom and equality who battled both Jim Crow and US Senator Joseph McCarthy during the communist witch hunt of the 1950s.    
 
In Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary, Gerald Horne discovers within Robeson's remarkable and revolutionary life the story of the twentieth century's great political struggles: against racism, against colonialism, against poverty—and for international socialism. Chapters include:
 
*”The Best Known American in the World"
*Rising Revolutionary
*From Moscow to Madrid
*"Black Stalin"?
*Robeson: Primary Victim of the "Blacklist"
*Triumph—and Tragedy
*Death of a Revolutionary      
 
In the Introduction, Horne writes: “Paul Robeson—activist, artist, athlete—experienced a dramatic rise and fall, perhaps unparalleled in U.S. history. From mingling with the elite of London society and Hollywood in the 1930s, by the time he died in 1976, he was a virtual recluse in a plain abode in a working-class neighborhood of Philadelphia. What helps to explicate this tragic art of his life is a fateful decision he made when fascism was rising: he threw in his lot with those battling for socialism and decide to sacrifice his thriving artistic career on behalf of the struggle against Jim Crow—or U.S. apartheid.”
 
This critical and searching biography provides an opportunity for readers to comprehend the triumphs and tragedies of the revolutionary progressive movement of which Paul Robeson was not just a part, but perhaps its most resonant symbol.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780745335322
ISBN-10: 0745335322
Pagini: 176
Ilustrații: 12 halftones
Dimensiuni: 127 x 197 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: PLUTO PRESS
Colecția Pluto Press
Seria Revolutionary Lives


Notă biografică

Gerald Horne holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. He is the author of The Counter-Revolution of 1776 and Black Revolutionary.

Cuprins

1: “The Best Known American in the World”
2: Rising Star
3: Rising Revolutionary
4: From Moscow to Madrid
5: “The Tallest Tree in Our Forest” 
6: “Black Stalin”?
7: Robeson: Primary Victim of the “Blacklist”
8: Britain Beckons
9: Triumph—and Tragedy
10: Death of a Revolutionary
Notes
Index

Recenzii

''Horne gives us the Paul Robeson we’ve been waiting for: the flesh and blood revolutionary, artistic genius, and fearless opponent of capitalism, racism and colonialism. He recovers in meticulous scholarly detail one of the 20th century’s greatest freedom fighters.  Horne also brings Robeson to life for our own times. This is a brilliant encore for an essential revolutionary life." - Bill V. Mullen, Purdue University, author of Afro-Orientalism

"Horne has made an amazing contribution to African American radical history with the newly published biography Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary. I devoured [it] in one sitting. In a relatively short book, Horne has captured the essence of Paul Robeson as both a domestic leader for African American equality, as well as an international icon promoting decolonization and socialism on a world stage. I hope a new generation of activists - Black and white - read Horne's insightful book."

Won

"Historian Horne delivers a fine, taut analysis of the great African American athlete, singer, actor, and political activist, highlighting the theme of the artist as revolutionary. A welcome addition for any library, small or large. Highly recommended."

"Powerfully affirms that Robeson’s global artistic acclaim infuriated defenders of U.S. foreign policy while giving voice to earlier and later generations of black socialist radical artists. Horne portrays the tragedies faced by and the impact possible for politically conscious black artists in the face of racial caricature and American imperialism. Drawing attention to Robeson’s oratory this study reflects the cultivation of debate, law, and linguistics in Black cultural life and the role of Robeson’s universalist musicology." - Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, UC Irvine

"Horne’s book is fine introduction to the man, his work and more importantly his ideas. The book succinctly charts the evolution of this singular and exemplary Artist, who used his vast talent, intellect and renown to fight for the rights and dignity of the oppressed and exploited of the world.  A valuable work that clarifies the distinction between genuine fame and the simple vacuous celebrity obsessions of our time."

"An original and powerful biography of Paul Robeson by today’s most productive scholar of African American history: Gerald Horne. Through focusing on his artistry as an actor, global travels, passion for languages, and struggles against U.S. cold warriors, Horne brilliantly brings to life Robeson’s commitment to racial equality, socialism, decolonization, peace, and internationalism.  This book would have made Robeson proud."