Comrades of Color : : East Germany in the Cold War World /

Comrades of Color : : East Germany in the Cold War World / / ed. by Quinn Slobodian.

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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 A...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Calzada, Victor Fowler,
Hagen, Katrina,
Hong, Young-Sun,
Hosek, Jennifer Ruth,
Lenshyn, Victoria Rizo,
Pugach, Sara,
Schaefer, Bernd,
Schwenkel, Christina,
Slobodian, Quinn,
Stevens, Simon,
Torner, Evan,
Verber, Jason,
Witkowski, Gregory,
HerausgeberIn:
Slobodian, Quinn,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Protest, Culture & Society ; 15
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Introduction
  • PART I Race Without Racism?
  • Chapter 1 Socialist Chromatism: Race, Racism, and the Racial Rainbow in East Germany
  • PART II Aid anders?
  • Chapter 2 Through a Glass Darkly: East German Assistance to North Korea and Alternative Narratives of the Cold War
  • Chapter 3 Between Fighters and Beggars: Socialist Philanthropy and the Imagery of Solidarity in East Germany
  • Chapter 4 Socialist Modernization in Vietnam: The East German Approach, 1976–89
  • PART III Ambivalent Solidarities
  • William “Bloke” Modisane to Margaret Legum, 1966
  • Chapter 5 Bloke Modisane in East Germany
  • Chapter 6 African Students and the Politics of Race and Gender in the German Democratic Republic
  • Chapter 7 Ambivalence and Desire in the East German “Free Angela Davis” Campaign
  • Chapter 8 True to the Politics of Frelimo? Teaching Socialism at the Schule der Freundschaft, 1981–90
  • PART IV Socialist Mirrors
  • “The Black Façade of the Universities of German Revisionism”
  • Chapter 9 The Uses of Disorientation: Socialist Cosmopolitanism in an Unfinished DEFA-China Documentary
  • Chapter 10 Imposed Dialogues: Joerg Foth and Tran Vu’s GDR-Vietnamese Coproduction, Dschungelzeit (1988)
  • PART V Internationalist Remains
  • Chapter 11 Affective Solidarities and East German Reconstruction of Postwar Vietnam
  • Chapter 12 La Idea de Carlos Marx Tracing Germany in the Cuban Imaginary
  • Index
  • Protest, Culture, and Society

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