Comrades of Color

<p> 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.</p>