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  • 4 - Ideas in Action: Eslanda Robeson’s International Thought after 1945

  • from Part I - Canonical Thinkers
  • Edited by Patricia Owens, University of Oxford, Katharina Rietzler, University of Sussex
  • Book:
    Women's International Thought: A New History
    Published online:
    07 January 2021
    Print publication:
    07 January 2021, pp 93-112
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    Earlier accounts of Eslanda Robeson have tended to focus on her stage-managing her husband’s career, minimizing her decision to go to Africa as an outcome of the breakdown of their marriage. Yet after the 1945 publication of African Journey Robeson became a household name among African American intellectuals, famous for her shrewd analyses of race and empire in the emerging Cold War. Building on recent work on the history of black international thought, this essay foregrounds Robeson’s journalism and involvement in internationalist and Pan-African networks. Robeson was an activist-intellectual whose international thought centered on the struggle for women’s participation and the significance of the so-called Third World. She astutely observed the limits of action imposed by international organizations. Committed to promoting women as political actors, Robeson nonetheless remained wedded to maternalist thinking. Yet, her widely read writings offered new representations of global politics to her readership, highlighting Robeson’s pedagogical commitment.