African presence in former Soviet spaces

摘要: ▪ Abstract This review traces accounts of African presence in the former USSR that are available or have been cited primarily English; many sources on this topic published were strategically intended for Western consumption. This tracks repetitions tropes link certain kinds “blackness” to “Africa”: It observes treating blacks as “displaced” confirmed Soviet humanitarianism, and produced managed anti-Western/anticapitalist forms nationalism federalism. We scrutinize ways use evidence “race remnants” implicitly position black bodies subjects racial dissolution and/or cultural assimilation. leads us question possibility narrating contexts ruled by logics wed spatial displacement/placement impurity/purity. More broadly, addresses utility ideals displaced communities within diasporic criticism.