{"id":5065,"date":"2000-07-17T21:27:00","date_gmt":"2000-07-17T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5065"},"modified":"2021-06-11T22:34:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T22:34:49","slug":"pushkin-claimed-by-one-droppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2000\/07\/17\/pushkin-claimed-by-one-droppers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pushkin claimed by &#8220;one droppers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>>MAGAZINES &#038; JOURNALS<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>A glance at the summer issue of &#8220;Transition&#8221;:<br \/>\n>Exploring Pushkin&#8217;s black roots<br \/>\n><br \/>\n>Aleksandr Pushkin&#8217;s African roots are crucial to understanding<br \/>\n>Russia&#8217;s beloved poet, writes Anne Lounsbery, a lecturer in<br \/>\n>Russian literature at Harvard University. Ms. Lounsbery writes<br \/>\n>about Pushkin&#8217;s pride in his genealogy, and his strong<br \/>\n>connection to his African ancestor, Avram Gannibal &#8212; a man who<br \/>\n>appears in some of the poet&#8217;s literary endeavors. Gannibal was<br \/>\n>the son of a local prince in what is now Cameroon. Purchased as<br \/>\n>a slave by a Russian diplomat, Gannibal so impressed Peter the<br \/>\n>Great with his intellect that the czar made him his godson and<br \/>\n>sent him to France to be educated. Gannibal eventually became a<br \/>\n>great general, and both of Pushkin&#8217;s parents were his<br \/>\n>descendants. Although some scholars have argued that Gannibal<br \/>\n>was Abyssinian and therefore not black, others have protested<br \/>\n>that view; the poet himself took pride in his blackness.<br \/>\n>&#8221;Pushkin described himself, and his African ancestor, with words<br \/>\n>that designated all black people, including the slaves of the<br \/>\n>New World; he referred to American slaves as &#8216;my brothers<br \/>\n>negry,'&#8221; she writes. According to Ms. Lounsbery, Pushkin &#8220;first<br \/>\n>entered American consciousness as a black man.&#8221; He has been<br \/>\n>written about in the black press; there is a prize for black<br \/>\n>writers named after him; an African-American museum in Harlem<br \/>\n>dedicates an exhibition to him. Much of his Russian-ness was<br \/>\n>thrown into relief by his relationship to his estranged<br \/>\n>homeland, Africa. &#8220;He was a race man for Russia,&#8221; Ms. Lounsbery<br \/>\n>writes. The article is not available online, but information<br \/>\n>about the journal is available at<br \/>\n>http:\/\/www.TransitionMagazine.com<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>>MAGAZINES &#038; JOURNALS > >A glance at the summer issue of &#8220;Transition&#8221;: >Exploring Pushkin&#8217;s black roots > >Aleksandr Pushkin&#8217;s African roots are crucial to understanding >Russia&#8217;s beloved poet, writes Anne Lounsbery, a lecturer in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-5065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-biracial-and-multiracial"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1jH","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7153,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065\/revisions\/7153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}