The Cultural Politics of Paul Robeson and Richard Wright: Theorizing the African Diaspora

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2008
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Center for Africana Studies
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Confronted with the task of defining what it meant to be black in an anti-black world, early cultural critics faced intellectual, existential, and political challenges. This paper focuses on how Paul Robeson and Richard Wright met these challenges in the post-World War Two period. The author explores the way that Robeson and Wright’s biographies and writings shed light on the ambiguities inherent in theorizing the African Diaspora.
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Paul Robeson, Richard Wright, Robeson, cultural, cultural poliltics, Africa, African Diaspora, Diaspora
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