“On Treacherous Ground: Paul Robeson's Here I Stand and the Interest-Convergence Dilemma" A lecture by Cedric Tolliver

Cedric Tolliver is assistant professor of English at the University of Houston. He is currently in residence in the McGill Department of English as a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in American Literature. His research deals with diasporic cosmopolitan culture defined by African American, Anglophone Caribbean, and Francophone Caribbean intellectuals after World War II. His current book project is entitled Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers: African Diasporic Cosmopolitan Culture and the Cold War.