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

    Comrades of Color by Slobodian, Quinn;

    East Germany in the Cold War World

    Series: Protest, Culture & Society; 15;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Berghahn Books
    • Date of Publication 1 December 2015
    • Number of Volumes Print PDF

    • ISBN 9781782387053
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages336 pages
    • Size 229x152 mm
    • Weight 613 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    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.

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    Long description:

    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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    Table of Contents:

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    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: Jörg 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

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