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Comrades of color : East Germany in the Cold War world / edited by Quinn Slobodian

Published
New York : Berghahn Books, 2015.
Copyright Date
©2015
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 325 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Slobodian, Quinn, 1978-
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Contents
Introduction / Quinn Slobodian -- Socialist chromatism : race, racism and the racial rainbow in East Germany / Quinn Slobodian -- Part I. Aid anders? -- Through a glass darkly : East German assistance to North Korea and alternative narratives of the Cold War / Young Sun Hong -- Between fighters and beggars : socialist philanthropy and the imagery of solidarity in East Germany / Gregory Witkowski -- Socialist modernization in Vietnam : the East German approach, 1976-1989 / Bernd Schaefer -- Part II. Ambivalent solidarities -- William "Bloke" Modisane to Margaret Legum, 1966 -- Bloke Modisane in East Germany / Simon Stevens -- African students and the politics of race and gender in the German Democratic Republic, 1957-1990 / Sara Pugach -- Ambivalence and desire in the East German "Free Angela Davis" campaign / Katrina Hagen -- True to the politics of Frelimo? : teaching socialism at the Schule der Freundschaft, 1981-1990 / Jason Verber -- Part III. Socialist mirrors -- "The black facade of the universities of German revisionism" -- The red flag of the university of foreign trade, 1968 -- The uses of disorientation : socialist cosmopolitanism in an unfinished DEFA-China documentary / Quinn Slobodian -- Imposed dialogues : Jorg Foth and Tran Vu's GDR-Vietnamese co-production Dschungelzeit (1988) / Evan Torner and Victoria Rizo Lenshyn -- Part IV. Internationalist remains -- Affective solidarities and East German reconstruction of postwar Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel -- La idea de Carlos Marx : tracing Germany through a long Cuban imaginary / Jennifer Ruth Hosek & Victor Fowler Calzada.
Summary
"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
"In keeping with the tenets of socialist internationalism, the political culture of the German Democratic Republic strongly emphasized solidarity with the non-white world: children sent telegrams to Angela Davis in prison, workers made contributions from their wages to relief efforts in Vietnam and Angola, and the deaths of Patrice Lumumba, Ho Chi Minh, and Martin Luther King, Jr. inspired public memorials. Despite their prominence, however, scholars have rarely examined such displays in detail. Through a series of illuminating historical investigations, this volume deploys archival research, ethnography, and a variety of other interdisciplinary tools to explore the rhetoric and reality of East German internationalism."--
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9781782387060 (electronic bk.)
1782387064 (electronic bk.)
9781782387053 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
1782387056 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9781785337376 (paperback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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