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.
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 Davlóa
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