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Vol. VI, No. 1

Translation of the script of Larry Pierce’s film “One Potato, Two Potato” about a love affair between a white woman and an African-American man in the United States, in a racist social setting.

A weekly about theater, cinematography, circus, stage performing, music, art and photography. On the cover, is featured well-known tenor Roland Hayes' (1887-1977) portrait. He toured in the Soviet Union in 1928, the same year the magazine was…

The University of Toronto Robarts Library building now sits on what was once the corner of Prince Arthur Avenue and St. George Street in 1898.

Presented at the University of Cambridge - Institute of Criminology, National Conference on Research and Teaching in Criminology

Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology Annual Meetings, Boston, Mass

Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology Annual Meetings, Boston, Mass

Regarding the grant dispute between the Centre for Criminology and the provincial government.

This book gives a history of lynching in the United States through the lenses of fascism versus communism and imperialism versus democracy.

In the 1920s and 1930s, the People’s Commissariat of Posts and Telegraphs of the USSR (NKPT) produced vast quantities of propaganda postcards, printing two million copies of this one alone. The postcard’s anti-lynching caption and illustration…

The book consists of ten spirituals, with English and Czech lyrics and chords for guitar. Following the Communist coup in 1948, interest in Black spirituals as songs of liberation grew in Czechoslovakia, and this book of music for guitar and voice…

This book contains five stories from Hughes’ books Not without Laughter and The Ways of White Folk. The commentators highlight the influence of Soviet writers like Maksim Gorky and Vladimir Mayakovsky on Hughes and provide a brief overview of the…

This volume is part of another poetry collection, Poetry Friends Club, which was published from 1961-1991. It includes works by 17 Black American poets.

This book translates selections from two books by Langston Hughes, Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (1959) and Ask Your Mama (1961). This volume is the 42nd in Mladá Fronta’s Flowers of Poetry series, which ran from 1958-2008 and spanned 242…

This book translates selections from two books by Langston Hughes, Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (1959) and Ask Your Mama (1961). This volume is the 42nd in Mladá Fronta’s Flowers of Poetry series, which ran from 1958-2008 and spanned 242…

This anthology, which contains translations of 72 poets from the U.S., Caribbean nations, Brazil, Ghana, Angola, Mozambique, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, and Madagascar, and offers a global perspective on Black literature. The book was published…

Written by a Soviet foreign correspondent, A Skyscraper Dissected takes its title from a poem by Vladimir Maiakovskii and portrays the “sharp political and social contradictions” that divided the U.S.