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Regarding the Pain of Others: Tweeting Book V of Crime & Punishment
How do you tweet “pauper’s pride”?
Teaching Race in Russia: Some Conclusions
I was giving the students a brief biography of Lorde and as soon as I said the phrase “black lesbian Feminist,” their eyes opened really wide. I don’t know if...
Teaching Race in Russia Part III: Sartre, Jazz, and the Cossack Dance
Sartre’s essay spends considerable time problematizing the intersection of communism and anti-racist politics, asking, “Can the black man count on a distant white proletariat-- involved in its own struggles?"
Teaching Race in Russia Part II: From Harlem to the “Soviet South”
My students, like Vladimir Nabokov before them, were surprised at how sexualized American racism was and how often black men were lynched for charges of even looking at white women.
Teaching Race in Russia: Dispatches from “The Harlem Renaissance: From New York to Tashkent”
Why do American race relations reappear over and over again in discussions of the minority experience in the former Soviet Union?
Is Slavic ready for Minorities?
Very often I’m asked how Slavic Studies can attract more minorities. I’ll tell my own story.