Nadja Klopprogge is an assistant professor at the University of Tübingen. She has held positions in Gießen and Basel, and in 2016 she was a fellow in the History of Race and Ethnicity at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. She has published on the nexus of race and sex in postwar Germany, and she her work has been awarded the Best Article Award of the German Association of American Studies.

• List of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. Connecting Histories: The Black Press, “Hitlerism,” and the Sexual Color LineChapter 2. Entangling Histories: Intimacy in the Aftermath of CatastropheChapter 3. Integrating Histories: A Future of “Normality”Chapter 4. Disintegrating Histories: An African American Romance with the GDR?Chapter 5. Cold War Histories: Friendship and the Long Afterlife of the Antifascist AllianceChapter 6. Reframing Histories: Sexuality and the Discovery of the American EmpireEpilogueBibliographyIndex