Recovering Paul Robeson

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dc.contributor.authorSeniors, Paulaen
dc.contributor.editorPearson, Kimen
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-18T14:56:46Zen
dc.date.available2023-01-18T14:56:46Zen
dc.date.issued2022-08-31en
dc.date.updated2023-01-17T22:44:53Zen
dc.description.abstractThis lesson will recover the history of Paul Robeson and provide teachers with culturally responsive resources, activities, and innovative educational approaches to teaching. In teaching the life of Paul Robeson I use historical analysis and use his Here I Stand to teach his biographical background and his ideology concerning human rights. This lesson utilizes historical methods and texts including Nell Painter’s “Cold War, Civil Rights” to teach about the McCarthy Era/The Red Scare and Robeson’s historical milieu. I have students conduct a sociology of art analysis of Nikolas Muray’s “Nude Kneeling,” (1926) to discuss Robeson as a Hyper Masculine African American Übermensch. I also teach students music and textual analysis by listening to Robeson from Songs of Free Men. We also watch film clips from Song of Freedom (1936) and Big Fella (1937). These all work to illustrate Robeson’s career and stardom. This lesson also uses Lynn Nottage’s Crumbs from the Table of Joy, scene three which students stage and perform. The play teaches students U.S. governments conflation of civil rights activism with communism, the fear this era instilled in people and the era’s effect on everyday African Americans like the family in the play and Robeson.en
dc.description.notesI was invited to submit this essay by the Guest Editor Dr. Kim Pearsonen
dc.description.versionAccepted versionen
dc.format.extentPages 1-10en
dc.format.extent10 page(s)en
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/113237en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherASALH Pressen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectPaul Robesonen
dc.subjectPan Africanismen
dc.subjectInternationalismen
dc.subjectHere I Standen
dc.subjectNikolas Muray’s “Nude Kneeling,” (1926)en
dc.subjectSongs of Free Menen
dc.subjectSong of Freedom (1936)en
dc.subjectBig Fella (1937)en
dc.titleRecovering Paul Robesonen
dc.title.serialBlack History Bulletinen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
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dcterms.dateAccepted2022-08-06en
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