MLK Event — The Wayland Rudd Collection: Exploring Racial Imaginaries in Soviet Visual Culture
Online Ann Arbor, MIScholar, artist, and writer Yevgeniy Fiks presents an archive of Soviet media images of Africans and African Americans — from propaganda posters to postage stamps — mainly related to African liberation movements and civil rights struggles. The project is named after Wayland Rudd (1900-1952), a Black American actor who moved to the Soviet Union in 1932. Fiks brings together …