Word: duberman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Martin Bauml Duberman...
...Rutgers class of 1919 had big plans for its valedictorian: by 1940 he would be Governor of New Jersey and "leader of the colored race in America." As Martin Bauml Duberman observes in his compassionate biography, extravagant predictions were still being made for Paul Robeson 21 years later. The son of an escaped slave had already risen to international celebrity as a singer, actor and public speaker, and no limits were set on his future. Hardly anyone foresaw that he was standing on the edge of an irreversible decline...
...Duberman, a professor of history at Lehman College in New York City, is a scrupulous biographer. But he seems an ingenuous historian. In his view, Robeson became the target of "Cold War hysteria," and the sad outcome of a brilliant career was, in essence, "America's tragedy." But in fact, the wound was self-inflicted. The champion of minorities and laborers turned out to be oddly forgiving about crimes against humanity -- provided that they were committed in the Workers' Paradise. To him, Stalin's infamous purges were a $ proper way to deal with "counter-revolutionary assassins." The pact between...
Although the CUNY center originally included the Yale activists, Duberman said, it split over differences regarding gender discrimination and the preservation of gay minority rights...
...Duberman listed researchers at many universities who are part of the CUNY group, including poet and Stanford professor Adrienne Rich, Yale history professor George Chauncy, and State University of New York at Purchase professor Esther Neufeld...