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The article presents the discussion on focusing more on scholarship than pedagogy. Topics include protests triggering by the nth act of shocking police aggression and violence against Black people; and beliefs leading literary scholars and educators for creating canons of "great books" and focusing on the deeper investigation.

In the 1950s, Yugoslavia started undertaking infrastructure projects abroad and funding scholarship programs for foreign students, which precipitated the movement of people from African and Asian countries into Yugoslavia. The creation of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in 1961 further increased these interactions. Individuals from the nonaligned world contributed to a change in the composition, cultural products, and, arguably, even cultural imaginary of Yugoslavia, leaving an indelible mark on film, music, and Yugoslav ideas surrounding Blackness. In this article I interrogate three uses of Blackness in Yugoslavia and post-Yugoslav Serbia to explore how the transmission of global, social, and cultural hierarchies impacted student migrants from the Global South whose primary defining features manifested through their difference from the majority. I conclude the article by exploring how these dialogues of difference are enlivened anew in the "Serbia in the World" program, a scholarship scheme providing funds for citizens of current Non-Aligned observer and member nations to study in Serbia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author discusses the need for prioritizing K-16 outreach by departments and colleges to expand diversity in the field of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (SEEES) in North America. The author tackles the difficulty in recognizing who is underrepresented in SEEES fields, the benefit of this increase in diversity to students, and the importance of support for the potential growth of SEES.