![]() Socialist Chromatism: Race, Racism and the Racial Rainbow in East GermanyĬhapter 2. HBLW3 Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000Ĭhapter 1. ![]() POL011010 POLITICAL SCIENCE/International Relations/Diplomacy Subject: History: 20th Century to Present Area: Germany Subject Codes Quinn Slobodianis Associate Professor of History at Wellesley College and the author of Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany. 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. Despite their prominence, however, scholars have rarely examined such displays in detail. 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. Celia Donert, University of Liverpool Description.Thought-provoking and carefully curated, the essays in this exciting collection will be indispensable for research and teaching on the history of socialist internationalism.” “Comrades of Color is an important and original contribution to debates about the entangled histories of the Second and Third Worlds during the Cold War. Quinn Slobodian has pulled together fresh contributions from many of the leading experts on the GDR’s interaction with the Global South.” “This is far and away the most creative book available in English on East German foreign relations. It ought to be commended for its unorthodox inclusion of primary sources, as well as its broad interdisciplinary approach, which reflects the multi-faceted nature of the topic it approaches.” “This is an important volume, providing a number of helpful interventions to a growing field. “The chapters in the edited volume provide nuanced cases of East German idealism and the limitations of its practice, which belied a variety of racial prejudices and tensions… the interdisciplinary and extended geographic scope of this edited volume successfully furthers a number of interrelated fields relating to the role of the GDR and the socialist world in the Cold War, race and their continuing legacies.” “This volume is exemplary in a number of ways…The engaging topics and fine-grained analysis of the interactions of situated individuals and groups in and beyond the GDR make the essays ideal for use in upper-level undergraduate and graduate seminars.” Recommend to your Library Available in GOBI® Reviews If you are a professor requesting an examination copy. ![]()
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