ISO a speaker: African American and Russian?

[Devin Browne]

Greetings all -- I'm trying to put some feelers out to see if there is
anyone "out there" who can speak to the unique and sometimes
complicated experience of an African American studying Russian.  My students
are predominantly of color and there are few black faces in our text books
and supplemental materials.  If there's someone that you're aware of that
speaks or writes about this topic, could you please send me a name (and
contact info, if you have it -- if not, a name will do fine).

While I'm not sure that my school alone could afford to bring someone in to
speak on this topic, I might sniff around local universities (are you
listening Pitt and CMU??) to see if they would consider helping out as
well.

If you're aware of any good articles on this topic (academic, popular
magazines, whatever), I wouldn't hearing about those as well.

Please send any suggestions directly to:  dpbrowne at mac.com

Thanks!

Devin

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