Robert Robinson (insinyur)

Robert Robinson
Lahir	(1906-06-22)22 Juni 1906 Jamaika
Meninggal	23 Februari 1994(1994-02-23) (umur 87) Washington, DC, Amerika Serikat
Warga negara	Jamaika Amerika Serikat Uni Soviet
Pekerjaan	Insinyur mesin, Pembuat alat

Robert Nathaniel Robinson (22 Juni 1906 – 23 Februari 1994) adalah seorang pembuat alat kelahiran Jamaika yang bekerja dalam industri kendaraan di Amerika serikat. Dalam usia 23 tahun, ia direkrut untuk bekerja di Uni Soviet. Tak lama setelah datang ke Stalingrad, Robinson secara rasial diserang oleh dua pekerja Amerika kulit putih, keduanya kemudian ditangkap, diadili dan diusir dari Uni Soviet.

Bacaan tambahan

• Robert Robinson; with Jonathon Slevin (1988). Black on Red: My 44 Years Inside the Soviet Union. Washington, DC: Acropolis Books. ISBN 0-87491-885-5.
• Tim Tzouliadis. The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags – Hope and Betrayal in Stalin's Russia. Little, Brown, 2009. "The Alabaman Herbert Lewis was locked up in a Stalingrad prison [for assaulting Robinson] ... his arrest, observed the visiting American reporter William Henry Chamberlin, seemed only to strengthen the "racial chauvinism" of the three hundred other Americans working at the tractor factory." (pp. 39–40).
• Roman, Meredith L. Diarsipkan 2016-03-05 di Wayback Machine. Opposing Jim Crow: African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of U.S. Racism, 1928–1937 (Justice and Social Inquiry) University of Nebraska Press; Reprint edition (July 1, 2012), ISBN 0803215525. Chapter 1: American Racism on Trial and the Poster Child for Soviet Antiracism. "On Thursday, July 24, 1930, around six o'clock in the evening at the Stalingrad Tractor Factory, Robert Robinson was walking away from the cafeteria when two white American men, Lemuel Lewis and William Brown, confronted him." (p. 26).
• Smith, Homer. Black Man in Red Russia. Johnson; Ex-Lib edition (1964). ASIN: B000IQ7HGQ.
• The Ghost of the Executed Engineer
• An American Engineer in Stalin's Russia: The Memoirs of Zara Witkin, 1932–1934. Witkin, Zara (1900–1940), Find a Grave.
• John Scott, BEHIND THE URALS: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel. Worker at Magnitogorsk.