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- Title
"BLACK" STUDENT MIGRATION AND THE NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT IN YUGOSLAV SPACE.
- Authors
Rucker-Chang, Sunnie
- Abstract
In the 1950s, Yugoslavia started undertaking infrastructure projects abroad and funding scholarship programs for foreign students, which precipitated the movement of people from African and Asian countries into Yugoslavia. The creation of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in 1961 further increased these interactions. Individuals from the nonaligned world contributed to a change in the composition, cultural products, and, arguably, even cultural imaginary of Yugoslavia, leaving an indelible mark on film, music, and Yugoslav ideas surrounding Blackness. In this article I interrogate three uses of Blackness in Yugoslavia and post-Yugoslav Serbia to explore how the transmission of global, social, and cultural hierarchies impacted student migrants from the Global South whose primary defining features manifested through their difference from the majority. I conclude the article by exploring how these dialogues of difference are enlivened anew in the "Serbia in the World" program, a scholarship scheme providing funds for citizens of current Non-Aligned observer and member nations to study in Serbia.
- Subjects
YUGOSLAVIA; SERBIA; STUDENT exchange programs; NON-Aligned Movement (Organization); FOREIGN students; BLACK students; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Slavic & East European Journal, 2020, Vol 64, Issue 3, p352
- ISSN
0037-6752
- Publication type
Article