What’s black and white and red-baiting all over?
Continue reading...#quitseelangs
Philip Gleissner
If you say the word SEELANGS to a Slavist, they will most likely respond by rolling their eyes.
Continue reading...Journalists discuss the role of race in US-Russia relations
Nigar Hacizade
Day 2 – Two-day workshop starts new conversations on Russia`s Races
Anastassia Kostrioukova
On February 27, 2015 the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia hosted the second part of its two-day workshop Russia’s Races: Meanings and Practices of Race in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, convened by David Rainbow, a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies, and co-sponsored by NYU Department of History, Global Research Initiatives (NYU Provost), the Harriman Institute, and the Humanities Initiative (NYU).
Day 1 – Two-day workshop starts new conversations on Russia`s Races
Ilaria Parogni
On February 26, 2015, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia hosted a two-day workshop on the topic of racial categorizations in Russia. The event, titled Russia’s Races: Meanings and Practices of Race in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union and convened by David Rainbow, a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies, was co-sponsored by NYU Department of History, Global Research Initiatives (NYU Provost), the Harriman Institute and the Humanities Initiative (NYU).
Teaching Race in Russia: Dispatches from “The Harlem Renaissance: From New York to Tashkent”
Jennifer Wilson
Why do American race relations reappear over and over again in discussions of the minority experience in the former Soviet Union?
Continue reading...Is Slavic ready for Minorities?
Jennifer Wilson
Very often I’m asked how Slavic Studies can attract more minorities. I’ll tell my own story.
Continue reading...Slavic Studies’ Heart of Whiteness
Anne Lounsbery
Protocols of the Elders of Ukraine
Kathryn David
The flyer played upon the fears that continue to plague Jews around the world: unstable governments will ultimately turn their forces on the Jews, especially countries with long histories of anti-Semitism.
Continue reading...Black woman or Russian fashion accessory? Only her hairdresser knows for sure…
Eliot Borenstein
If you’re an art impresario, fashion designer, and related to two (count ‘em, two) Russian oligarchs by blood and by common-law marriage, it can’t be easy finding a new thrill. If you’re Dasha Zhukova, editor of the Garage fashion magazine, what’s left to do?
Continue reading...“Those crazy Americans, of course Pushkin’s not black!”
Elizabeth (Betty) BanksLast Friday, a group of scholars gathered in the wonderful space of NYU’s newly established Africa house to discuss connections of various forms between Russian and Africa.
We were a notably eclectic collective, including a Nigerian professor who studied in the USSR, the daughter of a Russian woman and an Angolan man who was born in Soviet Uzbekistan, an American historian of Russia married to an Africanist, a young scholar working on a book manuscript about the Soviet Afro-Asian writers’ organisation, a historian of African interested in global expression of blackness, a documentary film maker, and a early-stage graduate student perhaps feeling her way to a Russian-African topic.
