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

Other author/creatorSlobodian, Quinn, 1978-
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoNew York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2015.
Descriptionviii, 325 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Series Protest, culture and society ; volume 14
Contents Introduction / Quinn Slobodian -- Socialist chromatism : race, racism and the racial rainbow in East Germany / Quinn Slobodian -- Part I. Aid anders? -- Through a glass darkly : East German assistance to North Korea and alternative narratives of the Cold War / Young Sun Hong -- Between fighters and beggars : socialist philanthropy and the imagery of solidarity in East Germany / Gregory Witkowski -- Socialist modernization in Vietnam : the East German approach, 1976-1989 / Bernd Schaefer -- Part II. Ambivalent solidarities -- William "Bloke" Modisane to Margaret Legum, 1966 -- Bloke Modisane in East Germany / Simon Stevens -- African students and the politics of race and gender in the German Democratic Republic, 1957-1990 / Sara Pugach -- Ambivalence and desire in the East German "Free Angela Davis" campaign / Katrina Hagen -- 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 -- The uses of disorientation : socialist cosmopolitanism in an unfinished DEFA-China documentary / Quinn Slobodian -- Imposed dialogues : Jorg Foth and Tran Vu's GDR-Vietnamese co-production Dschungelzeit (1988) / Evan Torner and Victoria Rizo Lenshyn -- Part IV. Internationalist remains -- Affective solidarities and East German reconstruction of postwar Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel -- La idea de Carlos Marx : tracing Germany through a long Cuban imaginary / Jennifer Ruth Hosek & Victor Fowler Calzada.
Scope and content "This volume looks into the relationship that East Germany held with non-white socialistic nations, such as China and Cuba, as well as socialistic and communistic minorities in the United States. The volume also relates how these states and individuals saw East Germany"--Provided by publisher.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2015014517
ISBN9781782387053 (hardback : alkaline paper)

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