Join NYU's Jordan Center for a talk with David Rainbow on race in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union. Rainbow, an instructional assistant professor of history at the University of Houston, discusses how race worked in Russia and the Soviet Union at various points. He approaches race as ideology, which helps to uncover the complicated and sometimes contradictory ways racial ideas and practices affected Russia and the Soviet Union. Rainbow argues that Race in Russia and the Soviet Union was not a singular thing or idea that can be easily defined; rather, race consisted of multiple and competing sets of ideas about human difference, essence, biology, culture and inheritance that emerged from, and simultaneously shaped, social and political practices over time. Rainbow believes that looking at the ideologies of race allows us to better situate Russia and the Soviet Union in a global history of race, while at the same time marking critical differences.

This talk is part of the Jordan Center's Colloquium Series, which serves to introduce the most recent work of scholars within the Slavic field.

Speaker:

David Rainbow, instructional assistant professor of history, Honors College, University of Houston