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Homegrown Foreigners: The African Diaspora in Ukraine with Terrell Jermaine Starr

Thursday, October 13, 2011 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (ET)

Washington, United States

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The Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies

Black Bread

and

The African Studies Program

present

Homegrown Foreigners: The African Diaspora in Ukraine

 

Terrell Jermaine Starr

Fulbright Scholar and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer

 

Thursday, October 13th

ICC 450

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

 

The presentation will address the rarely discussed subject of African Diasporas in the former Soviet Union, particularly African-Ukrainians. Starr will share the personal stories and self-perceptions of interracial couples living in a Slavic society and give a general overview of the former USSR’s efforts to pull Africa into its geo-political sphere of influence. In addition, he will provide a personal account of his own experience during the 4 years he spent in the former USSR.


  Terrell Jermaine Starr is a Fulbright and Peace Corps – Georgia alum who has just completed a yearlong journalistic study of the African Diaspora in Ukraine. He earned his Masters’ degrees in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies and Journalism from the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. He earned his B.A. in English from Philander Smith College in Little Rock, AR. He is a young professional and multi-media journalist.

 

*Black Bread is an organization that seeks to encourage more Black students to learn Russian and to study abroad in countries of the former Soviet Union. Learn more at http://www.blackbread.org