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Liya Oliverovna Golden (18 July 1934 – 6 December 2010) was a Soviet and Russian historian and civil rights advocate.
Biography
editLiya Oliverovna Golden was born on 18 July 1934 in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR.[1] Her father Oliver Golden was an African-American agronomist from the Southern United States, and her mother Bertha (née Bialek) was a Polish Jewish immigrant to the United States.[2][1] After being unable to return to their native United States alongside her mother due to anti-Black racism and World War II, Golden remained in the Uzbek SSR, where she played tennis for the national team and was the 1948 national champion.[1][3] She was educated at the Tashkent Conservatory, becoming a locally-renowned pianist.[1] Following the encouragement of actor Wayland Rudd, she majored in African-American history at Moscow State University, where she became their first Black student.[1][4]
Golden began working at the Oriental Institute's African studies department, before becoming part of the newly-inaugurated Institute for African Studies in 1958 and eventually serving as acting director.[4][5] Although her academic research was ideologically controlled, she did some research on Abkhazians of African descent and contemporary black music.[4] In addition to her work on African music and the African diaspora of the Soviet Union, she also released an autobiography, My Long Journey Home (2003).[1]
In 1960, she married Prime Minister of Zanzibar Abdullah Kassim Hanga, whom she had met during the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students in 1957;[1] Their daughter, journalist Yelena Khanga, was born in 1962, and the couple remained married until Hanga's execution in 1968.[1] She later married Boris Yagovlev, a Vladimir Lenin expert.[6]
Golden worked on three Soviet documentaries about the First World Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar, Senegal in 1966 with Soviet cameraman Georgy Serov.[7]
In 1987, amidst Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika reforms, Golden visited the United States to find relatives at the invitation of Center for Citizen Initiatives founder Sharon Tennison.[6] She later moved to the country the next year, remaining there until 2003.[1] She began working at Chicago State University in 1992, becoming a distinguished scholar-in-residence there.[1][5]
Inspired by her multiethnic heritage, she became an advocate for racial equality while living in the United States, and she was known to be a "tower of strength, hope and source of inspiration" for Afro-Russians, especially with the rise of racism after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and for her advancements in Russia's relations with Africa.[1][5] She also was a United Nations representative for such NGOs as the Center for Citizen Initiatives was the founder of the Golden Foundation of Russian-African Culture.[1][5]
Golden died in Moscow on 6 December 2010.[1] In 2024, Kester Kenn Klomegah said that Golden "has a special place in history of the relations between Russia and Africa" and that her works are "still considered as foundations to multifaceted relations from the Soviet times until today".[5]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Ernst, Alina (2018-07-07). "Lily Golden (1934-2010)". BlackPast. Retrieved 2024-06-22.
- ^ Ernst, Alina (2018-04-01). "Oliver Golden (1887-1940)". BlackPast. Retrieved 2024-06-22.
- ^ "Елена Ханга – о специфике детско-юношеского тенниса в России и талантливых детях из малообеспеченных семей". Bolshoi Sport. Vol. 10, no. 76. Retrieved 2024-06-22.
- ^ a b c Peterson, Dale E. (2004). "Review of My Long Journey Home". The Slavic and East European Journal. 48 (4): 664–666. ISSN 0037-6752 – via JSTOR.
- ^ a b c d e Klomegah, Kester Kenn (2024-05-25). "Professor Lily Golden: Unforgettable African-Russian Academic and Social Influencer". Modern Diplomacy. Retrieved 2024-06-22.
- ^ a b Skipitares, Connie (1987-10-09). "Soviet wants to hunt her kin in Mississippi". The Miami Herald. pp. 11A. Retrieved 2024-06-22.
- ^ Razlogova, Elena (Spring 2022). "Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, the Soviet Union, and Cold War Circuits for African Cinema, 1958-1978". Black Camera. 13 (2): 451–473. doi:10.2979/blackcamera.13.2.24. ISSN 1947-4237.
External Resources
edit- Soul to Soul: A Black Russian American Family 1865-1992. By Yelena Khanga with Susan Jacoby.