Engagement with the postcolonial

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This is no different from what happens with many other Eastern European immigrants who reproduce the norm of whiteness when they themselves suffer racial prejudice.  in the context of postsocialism can easily become a selective and convenient tool in itself for asserting ones Europeanness and whiteness in the face of the Asian Empire when disconnected from global anticolonial struggles and the global question of the race. The desire to be recognized as a target in the process of liberation from Russian colonialism prevents solidarity with other anticolonial struggles.



The language of the postcolonial in the Russia Mobile Number List can easily be overlaid with claims of whiteness and the desire to reinforce European values that expel people from the borders of the Union. In fact although the discussion of colonialism is increasingly accepted in relation to Russia for many people in Eastern Europe being compared to the Third World is the worst offense. Alternative stories One of the alternatives is to narrate the region not only through the liberal narrative of a return to Europe widely criticized by many Eastern European scholars in the last decade which has meant among other things the acceptance of the violent border apparatus of the European Union but also through the histories of SecondThird World internationalism and global anticolonial struggles.









This is not a call to postsocialist nostalgia for colonyfree colorblind socialist progress. Indeed socialist states often failed to take into account violence against racially prejudiced minorities within their own boundaries. Instead of this idealized quick return revisiting these histories can be an invitation to raise the question of solidarity among anticolonialisms on a global scale and to examine the regions current complicity in violence against the global South. This not only requires revisiting the histories of what have been called alternative globalizations the connections between the Second and Third World that bypassed the West but also seeing the region positioned within racial capitalist orders. militarized border regimes and histories of thought with global anticolonial struggles.