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...Paul Von Blum The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: Quest for Freedom, 1939–1976 , by Robeson Paul Jr. , John Wiley and Sons, Inc. , 2010 Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2010 C U L T U R E biological and cultural diversity...

...David Wojahn Wait by Williams C.K. , Farrar, Straus, and Giroux , 2010 Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2010 C U L T U R E friend Dr. W.E.B. DuBois, Robeson was The book details the horrific persecu­ interest...

... C U L T U R E biological and cultural diversity. Prompt­ UNDISCOVERED Robeson’s m ature life as an artist and ac­ ed by indigenous self-advocacy and ac­ tivist. Among other topics, it discusses tivism with sympathetic...

... by taking up three fundamental moments in his essay: the Obama victory in 2012, the role of identity politics in the New Left, and the case of Paul Robeson, a great figure of the forties and fifties. According to Von Blum, the 2012 election demonstrates the political strength of the identity politics...

... American studies course at UCLA was “Paul Robeson: An American Life,” the first ever course on Robeson in an American university. Traditional academic departments have historically excluded Robeson; indeed, Robeson and his magnificent accomplishments even now get scarce mention in departments of history...

... as Upton Sinclair, I.F. Stone, Sinclair Lewis, Langston Hughes, and Paul Robeson. Merlin is particularly harsh on the meekness of the American Jewish establishment. He had a field day with the way letters from Rabbi Wise appear to have addressed FDR obsequiously, beginning with the salutation, “Dear...

...—and specifically, our folksingers. Ever since the Depression and civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s, the demonstrations, protests, and marches had been accompanied by the songs of Woody Guthrie, Paul Robeson, Pete Seeger, the Freedom Singers in the south, Phil Ochs, Mahalia Jackson, the early Bob Dylan...