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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 class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://time.com/6153276/ukraine-refugees-racism/"><https://time.com/6153276/ukraine-refugees-racism/></a> <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>
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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 class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://anightatthegarden.com/"><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>Here is a larger set, in chronological order:</p>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/azov-far-right-fighters-ukraine-neo-nazis">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/azov-far-right-fighters-ukraine-neo-nazis</a></p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/neo-nazis-far-right-ukraine/">https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/neo-nazis-far-right-ukraine/</a><br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://theintercept.com/2022/02/24/ukraine-facebook-azov-battalion-russia/">https://theintercept.com/2022/02/24/ukraine-facebook-azov-battalion-russia/</a><br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1/who-are-the-azov-regiment">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1/who-are-the-azov-regiment</a></p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/opinion/ukraine-putin-stalin-history.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/opinion/ukraine-putin-stalin-history.html</a><br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.democracynow.org/2022/3/4/far_right_ukraine_holocaust_memorial_neo">https://www.democracynow.org/2022/3/4/far_right_ukraine_holocaust_memorial_neo</a><br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/03/14/neo-nazi-ukraine-war/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/03/14/neo-nazi-ukraine-war/</a><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Best,</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Lori<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/17/2022 10:15 AM, Elizabeth
Peacock wrote:<br>
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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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<u>On race:</u></div>
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Adriana Helbig. </div>
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<i>Hip Hop Ukraine: Music, Race, and African Migration</i>.</div>
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<a
href="https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/5197"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0"
style="margin:0px;color:rgb(26, 13, 171)"
moz-do-not-send="true"><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>
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Alaina Lemon</div>
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"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>
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Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black">
"African presence in former Soviet spaces"</div>
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<u>On language:</u></div>
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Laada Bilaniuk </div>
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<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>
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style="margin:0px;color:black">Race</span><span
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Postcoloniality:</span><span
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style="margin:0px;color:black">ukraine</span><span
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<i>Languages for the market, the nation, or the margins</i></div>
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Best,</div>
<span
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255, 255)">Liz</span><br>
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behalf of Jennifer Delfino <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jdelfino@bmcc.cuny.edu"><jdelfino@bmcc.cuny.edu></a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 16, 2022 9:37 AM<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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