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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480134203321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78238-706-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Collana

Protest, Culture and Society

Disciplina

303.48/2431008

Soggetti

Cold War - Diplomatic history

African American communists - History - 20th century

Socialism - History - 20th century

International relations - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Germany (East) Relations

Germany (East) Race relations Political aspects

Germany (East) Relations Asia

Asia Relations Germany (East)

Germany (East) Relations Cuba

Cuba Relations Germany (East)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 GermanyChapter 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 Forth 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