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...drove through impoverished sections of Basutoland, Eslanda distributed silver pieces to "incredulous" natives, "could have cried" when they accepted the money "with great dignity." But "porky, pie-faced Boers with . . . small eyes" glared when she rolled by in her "handsome Buick...
AFRICAN JOURNEY - Eslanda Goode Robeson - John...
...dear," said the anthropology professors at London University to Eslanda Robeson, leftist wife of Singer Paul Robeson. She had insisted that she possessed inborn understanding of the primitive mind. "You can't possibly know the primitive mind," they said. "You see, you are European." "What d'you mean I'm European?" snapped Eslanda; "I'm Negro . , . I'm African . . . I'm what you call primitive." "You're not primitive, my dear," said the dons, "you're educated and cultured, like us." Indignant, Eslanda decided to visit Africa...
...Winchester Castle, "frankly perspiring" white passengers paid friendly visits to Africa-bound Anthropologist Eslanda and her eight-year-old son, Pauli, in their double first-class stateroom. But Eslanda noticed reluctance to discuss "the all-important subject of Native affairs," recognized her British callers as " 'Deep South' white folks . . . only more so." In Cape Town it was a relief to hear the white telephone operator say: "We hope you both have a pleasant visit, and we hope Mr. Robeson comes out soon." She took them to be "the voice of the little people." Blushes & Raw Meat. Africa...
Robeson and his wife Eslanda, a biologist he met while at Columbia, settled down in London. In England he found equality, which he prized above homage. In 1934 he made the first of several visits to Russia. Russia impressed him even more than England: he had thought that race prejudice could never be entirely stamped out and "here was a country where it did not exist." In 1936 he put his nine-year old son, Paul Jr., to school in Russia because he did not want him to contend with race prejudice "until he is older and his father...