Eslanda Goode Robeson'sAfrican Journey
The Politics of Identification and Representation in the African Diaspora
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4271996 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maureen Mahon (0000-0002-6216-9448, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 101-118 |
| Publication date | 2006-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Souls (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1099-9949 • E-ISSN: 1548-3843 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10999940600882830 |
| OpenAlex | W2021603905 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Eslanda Robeson, the wife of Paul Robeson, trained as an anthropologist in the 1930s and drew on the field as she contributed to U.S. public discourse on race and racism during the 1940s. Focusing on her 1945 travel narrative, African Journey, and her public lectures, this article describes the ways she constructed an alternative, positive representation of Africa and people of African descent. I examine her work in relation to pan-Africanist activism, the politics of identification, and anthropological research that facilitated her practice of marking political and cultural connections among people of African descent. I view Robeson as a public intellectual engaged in the construction of representations that sought to reshape the ways Black and white Americans thought about Africa and their relationship to the continent
African descent · Art · Diaspora · Field (mathematics) · Identification (biology) · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Racism · Representation (politics) · Sociology · White (mutation) · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,31 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |