Comrades of Color

Comrades of Color

East Germany in the Cold War World

Slobodian, Quinn

Berghahn Books

08/2017

336

Mole

Inglês

9781785337376

15 a 20 dias

The political culture of the German Democratic Republic strongly emphasized solidarity with the non-white world, from contributions to relief efforts in Vietnam to public memorials for Ho Chi Minh and Martin Luther King, Jr. Through a series of illuminating historical investigations, this volume traces the contours of East German internationalism.
List of Figures Introduction Quinn Slobodian Chapter 1. Socialist Chromatism: Race, Racism and the Racial Rainbow in East Germany Quinn Slobodian PART I: AID ANDERS? Chapter 2. Through a Glass Darkly: East German Assistance to North Korea and Alternative Narratives of the Cold War Young Sun Hong Chapter 3. Between Fighters and Beggars: Socialist Philanthropy and the Imagery of Solidarity in East Germany Gregory Witkowski Chapter 4. Socialist Modernization in Vietnam: The East German Approach, 1976-1989 Bernd Schaefer PART II: AMBIVALENT SOLIDARITIES William "Bloke" Modisane to Margaret Legum, 1966 Chapter 5. Bloke Modisane in East Germany Simon Stevens Chapter 6. African Students and the Politics of Race and Gender in the German Democratic Republic, 1957-1990 Sara Pugach Chapter 7. Ambivalence and Desire in the East German 'Free Angela Davis' Campaign Katrina Hagen Chapter 8. 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 Chapter 9. The Uses of Disorientation: Socialist Cosmopolitanism in an Unfinished DEFA-China Documentary Quinn Slobodian Chapter 10. Imposed Dialogues: Jorg Foth and Tran Vu's GDR-Vietnamese Co-Production Dschungelzeit (1988) Evan Torner and Victoria Rizo Lenshyn PART IV: INTERNATIONALIST REMAINS Chapter 11. Affective Solidarities and East German Reconstruction of Postwar Vietnam Christina Schwenkel Chapter 12. La Idea de Carlos Marx: Tracing Germany through a Long Cuban Imaginary Jennifer Ruth Hosek and Victor Fowler Calzada Bibliography Index
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