Comrades of color
Subtitle: East Germany in the Cold War world
By: edited by Quinn Slobodian
Series: Protest, culture and society -- volume 14
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781782387053; 9781782387060
Subjects: Race relations; International relations; Diplomatic history; History; Relations; Socialism; Cold War; Political aspects; African American communists
Description: "This volume looks into the relationship that East Germany held with non-white socialistic nations, such as China and Cuba, as well as socialistic and communistic minorities in the United States. The volume also relates how these states and individuals saw East Germany"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Quinn Slobodian; title: Socialist chromatism : race, racism and the racial rainbow in East Germany / Quinn Slobodian; title: Part I. Aid anders?; title: Through a glass darkly : East German assistance to North Korea and alternative narratives of the Cold War / Young Sun Hong; title: Between fighters and beggars : socialist philanthropy and the imagery of solidarity in East Germany / Gregory Witkowski; title: Socialist modernization in Vietnam : the East German approach, 1976-1989 / Bernd Schaefer; title: Part II. Ambivalent solidarities; title: William "Bloke" Modisane to Margaret Legum, 1966; title: Bloke Modisane in East Germany / Simon Stevens; title: African students and the politics of race and gender in the German Democratic Republic, 1957-1990 / Sara Pugach; title: Ambivalence and desire in the East German "Free Angela Davis" campaign / Katrina Hagen; title: True to the politics of Frelimo? : teaching socialism at the Schule der Freundschaft, 1981-1990 / Jason Verber; title: Part III. Socialist mirrors; title: "The black facade of the universities of German revisionism"; title: The red flag of the university of foreign trade, 1968; title: The uses of disorientation : socialist cosmopolitanism in an unfinished DEFA-China documentary / Quinn Slobodian; title: Imposed dialogues : Jorg Foth and Tran Vu's GDR-Vietnamese co-production Dschungelzeit (1988) / Evan Torner and Victoria Rizo Lenshyn; title: Part IV. Internationalist remains; title: Affective solidarities and East German reconstruction of postwar Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel; title: La idea de Carlos Marx : tracing Germany through a long Cuban imaginary / Jennifer Ruth Hosek & Victor Fowler Calzada.