BTW the link Michael forwarded is to an superb article, but dated. I think the writer is incorrect in saying that (at least in 2004) "blackness" has caused much collective identity among the people so designated; Armenians and Azerbaijanis don't exactly get along, for instance, for obvious reasons.
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Michael Pugliese:
4. Not everybody in the whole world is an American. Russia has enough problems of its own without Westerners reading their own pathologies into it. ___________________________________ http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Race%22+in+Russia http://condor.depaul.edu/~rrotenbe/aeer/aeer13_2/Lemon.html "WHAT ARE THEY WRITING ABOUT US BLACKS?" ROMA AND "RACE" IN RUSSIA. Alaina Lemon University of Michigan