<div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/17/world/europe/ukraine-putin-nazis.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/17/world/europe/ukraine-putin-nazis.html</a><br><div><br></div><div>Here's another article on how Putin is using a discourse of “de-nazification” to justify his war in the Ukraine. I found the quote by Eduard Dolinsky, director general of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, insightful: “This problem [i.e. the contemporary existence of neo-nazi groups and the historical celebration of Ukrainian collaborators] did and does exist, but it has of course receded 10 times in importance compared to the threat posed by Russia in its alleged fight against Nazism.”</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 8:49 AM Loralee Donath <<a href="mailto:donathl@carcosa.net">donathl@carcosa.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>All,</p>
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<p>Just to provide some context--</p>
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<p> I don't claim deep or ethnographic understanding of the Ukraine
or the surrounding region. Rather, I had discovered the news
reports I shared following a class discussion related to ethnicity
(and race) in which one student introduced the war in terms of
physical similarities between Ukrainians and Russians (with the
unmarked assumption that neither of these groups of people could
physically produce very much melanin); and another student
highlighted the delay, mistreatment, and verbal and physical
assault--by Ukrainian guards--of people of African descent (and,
it turns out, other people of color) trying to board trains and
flee Ukraine during the initial exodus early in the conflict. <br>
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<p><a href="https://time.com/6153276/ukraine-refugees-racism/" target="_blank"><https://time.com/6153276/ukraine-refugees-racism/></a> <br>
</p>
<p><br>
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<p>(The latter student also astutely compared news coverage and
discourse about the war--on a global stage--to the likewise
sorrowful but uneven coverage of the disappearance and murder of
Gabby Petito last year). <br>
</p>
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<p>Incidentally, in a different class, an international student
commented on the activity and organization of white supremacists
in both the Ukraine and Russia; this was after the class viewed a
short clip of a Nazi rally in the U.S.: 20,000 people at Madison
Square Garden, 1939. <a href="https://anightatthegarden.com/" target="_blank"><https://anightatthegarden.com/></a><br>
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<p>I don't recommend a handful of news sources as a lit review about
discourses in the Ukraine, but, alongside Elizabeth Peacock's
references, it would seem foolish to ignore them. Indeed, this
dimension of the conflict deserves our close attention as humans
and as Americans, especially given our home-grown terrorist
problem and the prospect of another Trump presidency in the U.S.</p>
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</p>
<p>Here is a larger set, in chronological order:</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/azov-far-right-fighters-ukraine-neo-nazis" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/azov-far-right-fighters-ukraine-neo-nazis</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/neo-nazis-far-right-ukraine/" target="_blank">https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/neo-nazis-far-right-ukraine/</a><br>
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<p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/02/24/ukraine-facebook-azov-battalion-russia/" target="_blank">https://theintercept.com/2022/02/24/ukraine-facebook-azov-battalion-russia/</a><br>
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<p><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1/who-are-the-azov-regiment" target="_blank">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1/who-are-the-azov-regiment</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/opinion/ukraine-putin-stalin-history.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/opinion/ukraine-putin-stalin-history.html</a><br>
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<p><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2022/3/4/far_right_ukraine_holocaust_memorial_neo" target="_blank">https://www.democracynow.org/2022/3/4/far_right_ukraine_holocaust_memorial_neo</a><br>
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<p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/03/14/neo-nazi-ukraine-war/" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/03/14/neo-nazi-ukraine-war/</a><br>
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<div>Best,</div>
<div>Lori<br>
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<div><br>
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<div>On 3/17/2022 10:15 AM, Elizabeth
Peacock wrote:<br>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Here are some sources your student might be
interested in. (As a cultural and linguistic anthropologist of
Ukraine since 2003, I would take Lori Donath's suggestions
with a heavy handful of salt...)</span>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<u>On race:</u></div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
Adriana Helbig. </div>
<blockquote>
<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">
<i>Hip Hop Ukraine: Music, Race, and African Migration</i>.</div>
</blockquote>
<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<blockquote style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">
<h3 style="margin:0px 100px 2px 0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:17px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;background-color:white;line-height:19px">
<a href="https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/5197" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(26,13,171)" target="_blank"><span style="margin:0px;color:black">“On stage, everyone
loves a Black”: Afro-Ukrainian Folk Fusion, Migration,
and Racial Identity in</span><span style="margin:0px;color:black"> </span><span style="margin:0px;color:black"><b>Ukraine</b></span></a>"</h3>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
Alaina Lemon</div>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">
"Without a concept? Race as discursive practice."</div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">
"What are they writing about us blacks?' Roma and Race in
Russia"</div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">
"African presence in former Soviet spaces"</div>
</blockquote>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<u>On language:</u></div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
Laada Bilaniuk </div>
<blockquote>
<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">
<i>Contested Tongues: Language Politics and Cultural
Correction in Ukraine</i></div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">
<i>
<h3 style="margin:0px 100px 2px 0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:17px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;background-color:white;line-height:19px">
"<a href="https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ciso.12096" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(26,13,171)" target="_blank"><span style="margin:0px;color:black">Race</span><span style="margin:0px;color:black">, Media, and
Postcoloniality:</span><span style="margin:0px;color:black"> </span><span style="margin:0px;color:black">ukraine</span><span style="margin:0px;color:black"> </span><span style="margin:0px;color:black">between nationalism
and cosmopolitanism</span></a>"</h3>
<div style="margin:0px"><br>
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</i></div>
</blockquote>
<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
Jennifer Dickinson</div>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">
<i>Languages for the market, the nation, or the margins</i></div>
</blockquote>
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Best,</div>
<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Liz</span><br>
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behalf of Jennifer Delfino <a href="mailto:jdelfino@bmcc.cuny.edu" target="_blank"><jdelfino@bmcc.cuny.edu></a><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Linganth] Research on anti-Black
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<p>Hello linganth folks,</p>
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<p>I have an undergraduate student who wants to do a
(short) research paper on anti-Black discourses/language in
Eastern Europe. She is specifically interested in analyzing
these discourses in Ukraine, given recent events. Does
anyone have suggestions for articles or books that would
help her frame what is going on in Ukraine, or is anyone
currently working on this very recent issue? </p>
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<p>Thanks!</p>
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<p>Jen</p>
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Jennifer B. Delfino, Ph.D. (she/her)</div>
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Research Collaborative, The CUNY Graduate Center</span><br>
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<div><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Author,
<i><a href="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793606488/Speaking-of-Race-Language-Identity-and-Schooling-Among-African-American-Children" id="gmail-m_4880616255107894889LPNoLP" target="_blank">Speaking of Race:
Language, Identity, and Schooling Among African
American Children</a> </i>(2020, Lexington
Books)</span></div>
<div>Assistant Professor, <span style="font-size:12pt">Academic
Literacy and Linguistics</span></div>
<div>Borough of Manhattan Community College</div>
<div>The City University of New York</div>
<div><a href="mailto:JDelfino@bmcc.cuny.edu" target="_blank">JDelfino@bmcc.cuny.edu</a></div>
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