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Golden, Lily. My Long Journey Home. Chicago: Third World Press, 2002. 240 pp.
Lily Golden's autobiography, published in 2002, offers fascinating reading to those interested in Russian-American relations, black studies, women's studies, Jewish studies, postcolonial studies, Soviet and post-Soviet studies, and global English as well as to students of discourse-based studies of genre and identity narratives. The author is by ethnicity half African American (with some Native American ancestors) and half Polish Jewish American. She was born in 1934 a citizen of the United States (although she did not know that until she was in her sixties) in Tashkent, capital of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Uzbekistan. The book gives an account of her family background and extraordinary career as a Soviet historian and specialist in African Studies, her three marriages, and her second career in her retirement as an American celebrity, author, and teacher. My Long Journey Home is emphatically Golden's story and not an afterthought or complement to the book published in the United States in 1992 by her Russian-American celebrity-television-personality daughter, Yelena Khanga, entitled Soul to Soul: A Black Russian American Family 1865-1992.
A great deal about Golden is remarkable. She is an excellent storyteller; indeed the extraordinary experiences that make up her life are a fascinating read. Her mother, a Polish-born emigre in the United States, and her gifted African American father, his wife's senior by eighteen years, moved to Uzbekistan. The author's paternal grandfather was born a slave in the state of Mississippi. On the maternal side, her great-grandfather was a rabbi in Poland. Her parents renounced their American nationalities shortly after their child's birth and her father died when she was still small. Golden excelled in music, languages, and sports and ended up first as an undergraduate at Moscow State University, then a postgraduate and finally a research scholar in Moscow's Institute of African Studies. Her great love and first husband died shortly after their...
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