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The Wayland Rudd collection : exploring racial imaginaries in Soviet visual culture

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The Wayland Rudd collection : exploring racial imaginaries in Soviet visual culture / concept, Yevgeniy Fiks ; editors, Denise Milstein, Matvei Yankelevich.

Publication

Brooklyn, New York : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021.
Berkeley, California : SPD/Small Press Distribution ; Newcastle upon Tyne : Inpress Books.
Saline, Michigan : McNaughton & Gunn.
©2021

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Description

48 unnumbered pages of plates, 215 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

"The Wayland Rudd Collection presents artist Yevgeniy Fiks's archive of Soviet media images of Africans and African Americans--from propaganda posters to postage stamps--mainly related to African liberation movements and civil rights struggles. Meditations, reflections, and research-based essays by scholars, poets, and artists address the complicated intersection of race and Communist internationalism, with particular focus on the Soviet Union's critique of systemic racism in the US. The project is named after Wayland Rudd (1900-1952), a Black American actor who moved to the Soviet Union in 1932 and appeared in many Soviet films and theatrical performances. The stories of Rudd and other expat African Americans in the Soviet Union are given special attention in the book. Bringing together post-colonial and post-Soviet perspectives, the book maps the complicated and often contradictory intersection of race and Communism in the Soviet context, exposing the interweaving of internationalism, solidarity, humanism, and Communist ideals with practices of othering and exoticization. Conceived and introduced by Yevgeniy Fiks; with a foreword by Lewis Gordon; and contributions by Kate Baldwin, Jonathan Flatley, Joy Gleason Carew, Raquel Greene, Douglas Kearney, Christina Kiaer, Maxim Matusevich, Vladimir Paperny, MaryLouise Patterson, Meredith Roman, Jonathan Shandell, Christopher Stackhouse, Marina Temkina."--Publisher.

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Title page follows 48 unnumbered pages of plates.

Contents

The Wayland Rudd Collection: An Introduction / Yevgeniy Fiks -- Foreword: Dialectics of Sight / Lewis R. Gordon ; Lives : Marylouise Patterson: A Black American at Lumumba University ; interview by Yevgeniy Fiks & Denise Milstein -- Wayland Rudd's Soviet sojourn: in search of safe spaces / Joy Gleason Carew -- Before Rudd was Russian: the hidden history of a trailblazing African American Actor / Jonathan Shandell -- Paul Robeson and the Soviet promise / Maxim Matusevich -- To USSR and Back / Vladimir Paperny ; Representations : Hanged posts or rubbed ruddy / Douglas Kearney -- Sorting through the Wayland Rudd Collection / Yevgeniy Fiks -- Picturing the world of the Communist Black International / Jonathan Flatley -- Inventing an aesthetics of anti-racism: African Americans in early Soviet visual culture / Christina Kiaer -- Gender and racial formation in Soviet propaganda / Kate Baldwin -- Constructions of Africa in early Soviet children's literature / Raquel Greene ; Reflections : My Black moments / Marina Temkina -- White nights, Raymond Greenwood, and Wayland Rudd / Christopher Stackhouse -- Visual art responses to the Wayland Rudd Collection / Yevgeniy Fiks -- Anti-racist aspirations and artifacts / Meredith Roman ; Selected bibliography and further reading -- About the contributors -- Index of selected images from the Wayland Rudd Collection.

ISBN

1946433276
9781946433275

OCLC

on1096481395
1096481395

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries