THE GLOBAL AFRICAN COMMUNITY
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Alexander Sergeievich PushkinALEXANDER SERGEIEVICH PUSHKIN
A BIBLIOGRAPHYCompiled by RUNOKO RASHIDI
"Pushkin is the greatest master in the world. Pushkin, in our country, is the beginning of all beginnings. He most beautifully expressed the spirit of our people."
--Maxim Gorky
Acton, Harold. "Pushkin and Peter the Great's Negro." In Negro, An Anthology Collected and Edited by Nancy Cunard. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1970: 334-37.
Barringer, Felicity. "With Vigils, Soviet Fetes National Poet." New York Times, 15 Feb 1987.
Bivens, Matt, and Steven Gutterman. "Rich Notebooks of Poet Pushkin Brought to Life." Los Angeles Times, 16 May 1994: A4.
Blakely, Allison. "The Negro in Imperial Russia: A Preliminary Sketch." Journal of Negro History 61, No. 4 (1976): 351-61.
Blakely, Allison. "The Black Presence in Russia." Journal of the Afro-American Genealogical Society (Spring 1981): 61-66.
Blakely, Allison. Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought. Foreword by Albert Parry. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1986.
Fleming, Beatrice J., and Marion J. Pryde. Distinguished Negroes Abroad. Washington, D.C.: Associated Publishers, 1946.
Holte, Clarence L. "The Black in Pre-Revolutionary Russia." African Presence in Early Europe. Edited by Ivan Van Sertima. New Brunswick: Transaction Press, 1985: 261-75.
Kake, Ibrahima Baba. "Alexander Pushkin, A Great Black Poet in Czarist Russia." Translated by Wilma Sukapdjo. Afrique Histoire U.S. 1, No. 1 (1982): 42-48.
Kemp, Ruth. "Alexander Pushkin." Negro History Bulletin (Dec 1940).
Killens, John Oliver. Great Black Russian: A Novel on the Life and Times of Alexander Pushkin. Introduction by Addison Gayle. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989.
Locket, James D. "Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin: An Interpretation of the Russian Renaissance." Negro History Bulletin 45, No. 3 (1982).
Person-Lynn, Kwaku. "Father of Russian Literature." Los Angeles Sentinel, 11 Oct 1990: A-8.
Rashidi, Runoko. "Alexander Segeievich Pushkin: Father of Russian Literature." The Knowledge Broker (Jul 1995): 2.
Rashidi, Runoko. "A Trilogy of Great Black Men in Medieval Europe." Rhythm of the Drum 1, Nos. 2-3 (1995): 23-35.
Trench-Bonett, Dorothy. "Alexander Pushkin--Black Russian Poet." The Black Scholar 30, No. 2 (1989) 2-9.
Also see: ALEXANDER SERGEIEVICH PUSHKIN: PATRIARCH OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE
and: TRAVEL NOTES: ALEXANDER PUSHKIN AND THE AFRICAN PRESENCE IN RUSSIA
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