Missing Paul Robeson in East Berlin: The Spirituals and the Empty Archive

Carmody, Todd

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“…However, his involvement internationally was not expunged from all landscapes and there are isolated pockets throughout the United States and greater pockets of popular memory throughout the world, such as Wales (Dobbs & Cope, 2001a, 2001b, 2002a, 2002b, 2003a, 2003b; Rhodes, 2015; Williams, 2012), Canada (MacDowell, 2003; Verzuh, 2012), and Germany (Carmody, 2014). It is through these locations where connections can be drawn to understand how well the aforementioned philosophies have been represented.…”

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Placing Paul Robeson in History

Rhodes

2016

Journal of Black Studies

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Paul Robeson is one of the greatest yet most unknown figures of the 20th century. This article goes beyond the traditional bibliographic style of documenting this great life, toward constructing a usable philosophical framework from it. Utilizing Robeson's own works, and building on the small critical literature already in existence, I present his philosophical framework -comprised of anticolonialism, socialism, and human rights. I present these dense, interconnected, and ever-expansive philosophical stances into a form of communication that can be easily understood, evaluated, taught, and compared. Understanding the philosophies, actions, and examples of his ideological framework will provide the appropriate contextual background for understanding (to play off the title of Robeson's 1958 book, Here I Stand) where Paul Robeson philosophically stood.

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Placing Paul Robeson in History

Rhodes

2016

Journal of Black Studies

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“…The lack of popular knowledge of him (Brown, 1976; Von Blum, 1998; Wright, 1975) and the importance of his legacy in education (Dunn, 1987; Fernekes, 2004; Harrison and Lampman, 2001; Von Blum, 1998, 1999, 2008) dominate the literature. With the exception of East Berlin (Carmody, 2014) and Peekskill, NY (Rhodes, 2016a), the place-based memory of Paul Robeson has primarily been ignored. Almost all academic work on Robeson in Wales originate from historian and former Member of Parliament Hywel Francis (2003) and literature specialist Daniel Williams (2010, 2012, 2015), who focus more closely on Robeson’s legacy and politics than the affective intricacies of memory and the memorial landscape.…”

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Exhibiting memory: Temporary, mobile, and participatory memorialization and the Let Paul Robeson Sing! exhibition

Rhodes

2018

Memory Studies

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Since his first interactions with Welsh miners striking in London in 1929, Paul Robeson has been considered by some as an “honorary Welshman.” While the African American actor, athlete, activist, singer, and scholar never lived in Wales, he did have various interactions in Wales throughout his life. This special relationship persists on the memorial landscape of the country in various ways, but none as extensive as the Let Paul Robeson Sing! exhibition. This article extends beyond an overview of the exhibition to identify it as an example of exceptional memorialization techniques. Combining the concepts of participatory, temporary, and mobile memorialization, in order to commemorate Paul Robeson through a sensorial, spatially, and conceptually diverse program, Let Robeson Sing! exhibits memory through a unique and engaging memorial landscape. This article situates the exhibition within the techniques of participatory, temporary, and mobile memorialization, and how the combination of the three provides a unique, effective, and affective form of commemorating Paul Robeson in Wales.

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Paul Robeson’s place in YouTube: A social spatial network analysis of digital heritage

Rhodes

2018

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

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Missing Paul Robeson in East Berlin: The Spirituals and the Empty Archive

Cited by 4 publications

References 3 publications

Placing Paul Robeson in History

Placing Paul Robeson in History

Exhibiting memory: Temporary, mobile, and participatory memorialization and the Let Paul Robeson Sing! exhibition

Paul Robeson’s place in YouTube: A social spatial network analysis of digital heritage

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