Temple University Women's Studies Department in partnership with the
African-American Studies Department is proud to host award-winning Black
feminist writer, historian, and long time activist Professor Barbara Ransby
as we celebrate the recent release of her highly anticipated biography on
Eslanda Goode Robeson, entitled *Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life
of Mrs. Paul Robeson <http://barbararansby.com/Eslanda/>* (Yale University
Press, 2013).

*The book talk, signing, and reception will be held on Thursday, February
14, 2013 from 4:00PM to 6:00PM at the Center for the Humanities (CHAT),
which is located on the 10th Floor of Gladfelter Hall on 1115 Polett Walk
on Temple's campus.*



*Attached are flyers in jpg and pdf format. Please join us and/or spread
the word far and wide to your networks (in and/or near Philadelphia).*



*About Eslanda Goode Robeson:*

“Eslanda "Essie" Cardozo Goode Robeson lived a colorful and amazing life.
Her career and commitments took her many places: colonial Africa in 1936,
the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, the founding meeting of the
United Nations, Nazi-occupied Berlin, Stalin's Russia, and China two months
after Mao's revolution. She was a woman of unusual accomplishment—an
anthropologist, a prolific journalist, a tireless advocate of women's
rights, an outspoken anti-colonial and antiracist activist, and an
internationally sought-after speaker. Yet historians for the most part have
confined Essie to the role of Mrs. Paul Robeson, a wife hidden in the large
shadow cast by her famous husband. In this masterful book, biographer
Barbara Ransby refocuses attention on Essie, one of the most important and
fascinating [B]lack women of the twentieth century.”



*About Barbara Ransby:*

Barbara Ransby, PhD, is a Professor of African American Studies, Gender and
Women’s Studies, and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
where she directs both the campus-wide Social Justice Initiative and the
Gender and Women’s Studies Program. She previously served as Interim Vice
Provost for Planning and Programs (2011 -2012) at UIC. Professor Ransby is
the author of the multi-highly acclaimed biography, *Ella Baker and the
Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic
Vision<http://barbararansby.com/ella-baker/>
*(University of Illinois Press, 2005). The book received eight national
awards and recognitions including co-winner of the Liberty-Legacy Award
from the Organization of American Historians, the Joan Kelley Prize for
best book in women’s history from the American Historical Association, the
Gustavas Meyers Prize for book on human rights, and a book award from the
Association of Black Women Historians. As an activist, Professor Ransby was
an initiator of the African American Women in Defense of Ourselves campaign
in 1991, a co-convener of The Black Radical Congress in 1998, and a founder
of Ella’s Daughters, a network of women working in Ella Baker’s tradition.



Additionally, Dr. Ransby will be a featured guest on WHYY-91FM Radio Times
on Friday, February 15, 2013 at 11am. If you aren’t in the Delaware Valley,
you can still hear the program live online
http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/or listen to the archive of the show at
a later date.



Regardless of if you’re based in Philadelphia or not*, **Eslanda: The Large
and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson<http://barbararansby.com/Eslanda/>
* *is a must read*! Similar to her meticulous work documenting Ella Baker
in her multi-award winning biography *Ella Baker and the Black Freedom
Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision <http://barbararansby.com/ella-baker/>
*, Dr. Ransby shines a very bright *and* long overdue light on Mrs. Eslanda
Goode Robeson.



*Purchase your copy today!!!!*



Warmly,

Aishah


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