African Americans and the Soviet Experience
Russ 490S
("Special Topics")
Spring 2024
Mondays & Wednesdays
1:25-2:40
Prof. JoAnne Van Tuyl
Learn, talk about write about:
• African-Americans moving to the USSR in the 1930's
• A Soviet film project about American race relations that included Langston Hughes as script consultant
• African Americans influencing Soviet foreign policy
• Black American musicians wowing the Soviet people on "Cold War Diplomacy" tours
• Discourses of "soul" in Russian and African-American cultural identity
SLAVIC & EURASIAN STUDIES