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

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2015.
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 325 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Protest, culture and society ; volume 14
Protest, culture and society ; v. 14.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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."-- Provided by publisher.
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.
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Subject Germany (East) -- Relations.
Germany (East)
Relations.
Germany (East) -- Race relations -- Political aspects.
Race relations.
Germany (East) -- Relations -- Asia.
Asia.
Asia -- Relations -- Germany (East)
Germany (East) -- Relations -- Cuba.
Cuba.
Cuba -- Relations -- Germany (East)
African American communists -- History -- 20th century.
African American communists.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Socialism -- History -- 20th century.
Socialism.
International relations -- History -- 20th century.
International relations.
Cold War -- Diplomatic history.
Cold War (1945-1989)
Diplomatic history.
History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Diplomacy.
Race relations -- Political aspects.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Slobodian, Quinn, 1978- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Comrades of color 9781782387053 (DLC) 2015014517 (OCoLC)909317940
ISBN 9781782387060 (electronic book)
1782387064 (electronic book)
9781782387053 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
1782387056 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9781785337376 (paperback)