Comrades of Color

East Germany in the Cold War World
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-737-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 336 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 488 g

Reihe: Protest, Culture & Society

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Slobodian, Quinn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Slobodian, Quinn
Quinn Slobodian is Associate Professor of History at Wellesley College and the author of Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany.

Quinn Slobodian is Associate Professor of History at Wellesley College and the author of Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany.