Joy Gleason Carew

Joy Gleason Carew is the author of Blacks, Reds and Russians: Sojourners in Search of the Soviet Promise (Rutgers U Press 2008, 2010). She is also an Associate Professor of Pan-African Studies at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky.

When Black Americans Migrated to the Soviet Union

What if Black Americans decided that fighting institutionalized racism in America was a lost cause, and migrated abroad? This might seem like a totally outlandish proposal, but it has happened before. In the early 20th Century, Black Americans sought refuge and new opportunities in the Soviet Union.

Published in The Alien Issue on Jun 17, 2015

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