Sunnie Rucker-Chang
Biographic Data
| ID | 668791 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sunnie Rucker-Chang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sunnie |
| FAMILY NAME | Rucker-Chang |
| SIGNATURE | RUCKER-CHANG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6728-9780 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction
Nearly half a century ago, Allison Blakely produced Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought . The landmark text explored Black people’s lives and experiences in the Russian empire and the Soviet Union and how non-Black people in those spaces received them and conceptualized blackness from the seventeenth century to the 1980s. Since its publication, many of the Black characters and historical episodes adorning Russia and the Ne…
Yugoslav Film in Black and White
The films Valley of Peace (1956), Jagoš i Uglješa (1976), Tit for Tat (1978), and A Great Guy at Heart (1981) represent exceptions among the Yugoslav film canon because they include Black actors among their casts. Given that the majority of Yugoslavs were racialized as "white," the Black actors in these films emerge as a type of filmic device, providing social commentary on the post-World War II geopolitical priorities of Yugoslavia, including an…
Racialization and Race Studies in Russian and Eastern European Scholarship
Alexander Burry, Yana Hashamova, Sunnie Rucker-Chang, RACIALIZATION AND RACE STUDIES IN RUSSIAN AND EASTERN EUROPEAN SCHOLARSHIP, The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 65, No. 4 (WINTER 2021), pp. 576-582
A Moment of Reckoning
Race and racial formations and categories define global systems of power and are not bound by history or culture. Nevertheless, with few noted exceptions, race as a category of analysis has largely been rejected and rendered inapplicable within Slavic, east European, and Eurasian Studies. This unwillingness to expand categories of critical analysis has created a void in our area and field of study, shaping a false sense of racelessness. Without t…
Symposium
Anindita Banerjee, Gabriella Safran, Sunnie Rucker-Chang, Thomas Jesús Garza, Cassio de Oliveira, B. Amarilis Lugo de Fabritz, Colleen Lucey, José Vergara, Emily Wang, Lindsay Ceballos, Rachel Stauffer, Martha M. F. Kelly, SYMPOSIUM: Working Towards Equity in Slavic Language and Literature Programs: Experiences from the United States, The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 64, No. 4 (WINTER 2020), pp. 573-602
"Black" Student Migration and the Non-Aligned Movement in Yugoslav Space
Those Who Count
African-American and Romani Filmic Representation and the ‘Posts’ of Post-Civil Rights and Post-EU Expansion
In this article I explore linkages between the evolution of African-American filmic representation and the patterns of Romani representation in films from Central and Southeast Europe (CSEE). More specifically, I use the 1970s Blaxploitation movement and subsequent shift of African-American representation into films reliant on a realist aesthetic to contextualize analysis of the shortcomings of the Civil Rights Movement to provide broad integrati…
Roma Filmic Representation as Postcolonial “Object”
In post-Yugoslav film, depictions of Roma abound in associations with inferiority and an inability to conform to cultural and social norms of the majority. This projection mirrors the position of Balkan states in relation to the outside “European” gaze as they remain European internal outsiders; the spaces and people, like Roma, have been burdened by perceptions of Balkan difference, and present to the outside with non-conforming cultures and pol…
Challenging Americanism and Europeanism
The Turkish Connection
Bosnia has been defined by its perpetual state of transition—politically, culturally, and socially—since it seceded from Yugoslavia in 1992. The country's Balkan geography renders it both East and West, and its cultural affinities straddle the two poles as well. Hence, the country is in perpetual liminality, tugged by the influences of both Western and Eastern nations and organizations. This has particularly been true for the Bosniak population, …
A Moment of Reckoning
Race and racial formations and categories define global systems of power and are not bound by history or culture. Nevertheless, with few noted exceptions, race as a category of analysis has largely been rejected and rendered inapplicable within Slavic, east European, and Eurasian Studies. This unwillingness to expand categories of critical analysis has created a void in our area and field of study, shaping a false sense of racelessness. Without t…
Challenging Americanism and Europeanism
The Turkish Connection
Bosnia has been defined by its perpetual state of transition—politically, culturally, and socially—since it seceded from Yugoslavia in 1992. The country's Balkan geography renders it both East and West, and its cultural affinities straddle the two poles as well. Hence, the country is in perpetual liminality, tugged by the influences of both Western and Eastern nations and organizations. This has particularly been true for the Bosniak population, …
The Turkish Connection
Bosnia has been defined by its perpetual state of transition—politically, culturally, and socially—since it seceded from Yugoslavia in 1992. The country's Balkan geography renders it both East and West, and its cultural affinities straddle the two poles as well. Hence, the country is in perpetual liminality, tugged by the influences of both Western and Eastern nations and organizations. This has particularly been true for the Bosniak population, …
African-American and Romani Filmic Representation and the ‘Posts’ of Post-Civil Rights and Post-EU Expansion
In this article I explore linkages between the evolution of African-American filmic representation and the patterns of Romani representation in films from Central and Southeast Europe (CSEE). More specifically, I use the 1970s Blaxploitation movement and subsequent shift of African-American representation into films reliant on a realist aesthetic to contextualize analysis of the shortcomings of the Civil Rights Movement to provide broad integrati…
Roma Filmic Representation as Postcolonial “Object”
In post-Yugoslav film, depictions of Roma abound in associations with inferiority and an inability to conform to cultural and social norms of the majority. This projection mirrors the position of Balkan states in relation to the outside “European” gaze as they remain European internal outsiders; the spaces and people, like Roma, have been burdened by perceptions of Balkan difference, and present to the outside with non-conforming cultures and pol…
Challenging Americanism and Europeanism
Those Who Count
Symposium
Anindita Banerjee, Gabriella Safran, Sunnie Rucker-Chang, Thomas Jesús Garza, Cassio de Oliveira, B. Amarilis Lugo de Fabritz, Colleen Lucey, José Vergara, Emily Wang, Lindsay Ceballos, Rachel Stauffer, Martha M. F. Kelly, SYMPOSIUM: Working Towards Equity in Slavic Language and Literature Programs: Experiences from the United States, The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 64, No. 4 (WINTER 2020), pp. 573-602
"Black" Student Migration and the Non-Aligned Movement in Yugoslav Space
Racialization and Race Studies in Russian and Eastern European Scholarship
Alexander Burry, Yana Hashamova, Sunnie Rucker-Chang, RACIALIZATION AND RACE STUDIES IN RUSSIAN AND EASTERN EUROPEAN SCHOLARSHIP, The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 65, No. 4 (WINTER 2021), pp. 576-582
A Moment of Reckoning
Race and racial formations and categories define global systems of power and are not bound by history or culture. Nevertheless, with few noted exceptions, race as a category of analysis has largely been rejected and rendered inapplicable within Slavic, east European, and Eurasian Studies. This unwillingness to expand categories of critical analysis has created a void in our area and field of study, shaping a false sense of racelessness. Without t…
Introduction
Nearly half a century ago, Allison Blakely produced Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought . The landmark text explored Black people’s lives and experiences in the Russian empire and the Soviet Union and how non-Black people in those spaces received them and conceptualized blackness from the seventeenth century to the 1980s. Since its publication, many of the Black characters and historical episodes adorning Russia and the Ne…
Yugoslav Film in Black and White
The films Valley of Peace (1956), Jagoš i Uglješa (1976), Tit for Tat (1978), and A Great Guy at Heart (1981) represent exceptions among the Yugoslav film canon because they include Black actors among their casts. Given that the majority of Yugoslavs were racialized as "white," the Black actors in these films emerge as a type of filmic device, providing social commentary on the post-World War II geopolitical priorities of Yugoslavia, including an…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Romani and Gypsy Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Slavic languages (3 works) · Soviet and Russian History (3 works)