Exploring the Dimension of Russia and Otherness

FAIN: AB-290067-23

Howard University (Washington, DC 20059-0001)
Brunilda Lugo de Fabritz (Project Director: May 2022 to present)
Kelly Knickmeier-Cummings (Co Project Director: December 2022 to present)

A two-year project to develop an open educational resource textbook that would examine Black intellectuals’ engagement with Russian/Soviet intellectuals and the cultures of the Soviet Union.

The project “Exploring the Dimension of Russia and Otherness” will focus on an underexamined aspect of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES): how African Americans and Black intellectuals have interpreted their encounters with Russian/Soviet intellectuals, and how Russian/Soviet intellectuals have interpreted their encounters with African Americans and Black intellectuals and their culture(s), to include cultural exchanges with national minority cultures of the former Soviet Union and Russia’s near abroad.