Comrades of Color

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

“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.” • German Studies Review“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.” • Journal of Contemporary History“This is an important volume, providing a number of helpful interventions to a growing field. 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.” • Slavonic and East European Review“This is far and away the most creative book available in English on East German foreign relations. Quinn Slobodian has pulled together fresh contributions from many of the leading experts on the GDR’s interaction with the Global South.” • William Glenn Gray, Purdue University“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. Thought-provoking and carefully curated, the essays in this exciting collection will be indispensable for research and teaching on the history of socialist internationalism.” • Celia Donert, University of Liverpool

• List of FiguresIntroductionQuinn SlobodianChapter 1. Socialist Chromatism: Race, Racism and the Racial Rainbow in East GermanyQuinn SlobodianPART I: AID ANDERS?Chapter 2. Through a Glass Darkly: East German Assistance to North Korea and Alternative Narratives of the Cold WarYoung Sun HongChapter 3. Between Fighters and Beggars: Socialist Philanthropy and the Imagery of Solidarity in East GermanyGregory WitkowskiChapter 4. Socialist Modernization in Vietnam: The East German Approach, 1976-1989Bernd SchaeferPART II: AMBIVALENT SOLIDARITIESWilliam “Bloke” Modisane to Margaret Legum, 1966Chapter 5. Bloke Modisane in East GermanySimon StevensChapter 6. African Students and the Politics of Race and Gender in the German Democratic Republic, 1957-1990Sara PugachChapter 7. Ambivalence and Desire in the East German ‘Free Angela Davis’ CampaignKatrina HagenChapter 8. True to the Politics of Frelimo? Teaching Socialism at the Schule der Freundschaft, 1981-1990Jason VerberPART III: SOCIALIST MIRRORS“The black facade of the universities of German revisionism,” The Red Flag of the University of Foreign Trade, 1968Chapter 9. The Uses of Disorientation: Socialist Cosmopolitanism in an Unfinished DEFA-China DocumentaryQuinn SlobodianChapter 10. Imposed Dialogues: Jörg Foth and Tran Vu's GDR-Vietnamese Co-Production Dschungelzeit (1988)Evan Torner and Victoria Rizo LenshynPART IV: INTERNATIONALIST REMAINSChapter 11. Affective Solidarities and East German Reconstruction of Postwar VietnamChristina SchwenkelChapter 12. La Idea de Carlos Marx: Tracing Germany through a Long Cuban ImaginaryJennifer Ruth Hosek and Victor Fowler Calzada