Word: jojo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just the opposite, says Negro Novelist Carew, who was the first British Guianese ever to study behind the Iron Curtain. His hero in this novel is Jojo Robertson, a Guianese like Carew, and he has scarcely set foot in Moscow before another Guianese student gives him the word: "Let me put it this way, all the foreign students I talk to would prefer to study somewhere else...
...Jojo and his fellow Negroes, who "must judge all systems from the limbo of our skin," the greatest shock of all is the strident racial prejudice of a nation whose leaders deny that prejudice exists. The Negroes' white girl friends are suddenly shipped away from Moscow-to "Keep Russia Red." On the streets, they are always stared at, occasionally attacked, and often taunted with the Russian equivalent of "nigger" -"black monkey...
...Envy. Unlike most disillusioned repatriates from behind the Iron Curtain, Author Carew understands that Negroes are tough for the Russians to accept. "Strangers are new to all of us-black strangers and white ones," Jojo's Russian roommate admits painfully. "We have never had them living in our midst since the Revolution, and now, all of a sudden, we have young people from the four corners of the earth among us. You must try to understand our confusion. We have been told again and again that your people are hungry and illiterate, victims of imperialist greed and oppression...