Comrades Of Color

Author : Quinn Slobodian
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782387060

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Comrades of Color by Quinn Slobodian Pdf

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.

Author : Richard S. Fraser,Tom Boot
Publisher : Red Letter Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0932323227

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Revolutionary Integration by Richard S. Fraser,Tom Boot Pdf

A Marxist study of the civil rights and Black Power movements, which examines the nature of racism and the impact of African American radicals, feminists, and lesbians and gays. Critiques the nationalist assumptions of many Left groups, and puts forward an analysis that identifies racism as a distinct form of oppression that is intrinsic to capitalism.

Author : Marcia C. Schenck
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031067761

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Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World by Marcia C. Schenck Pdf

This open access book is about Mozambicans and Angolans who migrated in state-sponsored schemes to East Germany in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They went to work and to be trained as a vanguard labor force for the intended African industrial revolutions. While they were there, they contributed their labor power to the East German economy. This book draws on more than 260 life history interviews and uncovers complex and contradictory experiences and transnational encounters. What emerges is a series of dualities that exist side by side in the memories of the former migrants: the state and the individual, work and consumption, integration and exclusion, loss and gain, and the past in the past and the past in the present and future. By uncovering these dualities, the book explores the lives of African migrants moving between the Third and Second worlds. Devoted to the memories of worker-trainees, this transnational study comes at a time when historians are uncovering the many varied, complicated, and important connections within the global socialist world.

Author : Christina Schwenkel
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478012603

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Building Socialism by Christina Schwenkel Pdf

Following a decade of U.S. bombing campaigns that obliterated northern Vietnam, East Germany helped Vietnam rebuild in an act of socialist solidarity. In Building Socialism Christina Schwenkel examines the utopian visions of an expert group of Vietnamese and East German urban planners who sought to transform the devastated industrial town of Vinh into a model socialist city. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in Vietnam and Germany with architects, engineers, construction workers, and tenants in Vinh’s mass housing complex, Schwenkel explores the material and affective dimensions of urban possibility and the quick fall of Vinh’s new built environment into unplanned obsolescence. She analyzes the tensions between aspirational infrastructure and postwar uncertainty to show how design models and practices that circulated between the socialist North and the decolonizing South underwent significant modification to accommodate alternative cultural logics and ideas about urban futurity. By documenting the building of Vietnam’s first planned city and its aftermath of decay and repurposing, Schwenkel argues that underlying the ambivalent and often unpredictable responses to modernist architectural forms were anxieties about modernity and the future of socialism itself.

Author : Janice McLaughlin
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781779224040

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'The Color of the Skin doesn't Matter' by Janice McLaughlin Pdf

Sr Janice McLaughlin (1942-2021) was a remarkable woman, an American Maryknoll nun who dedicated her life to the twin causes of education and justice. This memoir, completed just before her death, tells her story with refreshing candor. Acknowledging her naivety, which so often gives sustenance to idealism and the drive for a better world, she wanted to be a part of the struggles for freedom and independence in Africa. Trained as a journalist, she first began work in East Africa in 1969. Eight years later, she came to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), to work as press secretary for the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace at the height of the liberation war. Here, her outrage at the brutality of the Rhodesian regime led her to be denounced as a 'terrorist sympathiser'. She was imprisoned and deported. This defining incident led her to the ZANLA camps in Mozambique where she worked as an educator. Sr Janice spent four decades of her life in Africa, mainly in Zimbabwe. Celebrating the country's independence in 1980, she was consistently committed to work in social justice with the newly developed ZIMFEP schools, at Silveira House, and with marginalised communities. As Bishop Dieter Scholz points out in his Foreword, she did not evade the hard truth that after forty years the new regime has not fulfilled its promises to create greater equality of opportunity for the disadvantaged; she continued to work for a better, kinder and happier world.

Author : Barbara A. Gannon
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807877708

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The Won Cause by Barbara A. Gannon Pdf

In the years after the Civil War, black and white Union soldiers who survived the horrific struggle joined the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)--the Union army's largest veterans' organization. In this thoroughly researched and groundbreaking study, Barbara Gannon chronicles black and white veterans' efforts to create and sustain the nation's first interracial organization. According to the conventional view, the freedoms and interests of African American veterans were not defended by white Union veterans after the war, despite the shared tradition of sacrifice among both black and white soldiers. In The Won Cause, however, Gannon challenges this scholarship, arguing that although black veterans still suffered under the contemporary racial mores, the GAR honored its black members in many instances and ascribed them a greater equality than previous studies have shown. Using evidence of integrated posts and veterans' thoughts on their comradeship and the cause, Gannon reveals that white veterans embraced black veterans because their membership in the GAR demonstrated that their wartime suffering created a transcendent bond--comradeship--that overcame even the most pernicious social barrier--race-based separation. By upholding a more inclusive memory of a war fought for liberty as well as union, the GAR's "Won Cause" challenged the Lost Cause version of Civil War memory.

Author : United States. War Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Confederate States of America
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119500713

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The War of the Rebellion by United States. War Department Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1536 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11549013

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House documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : Grand Army of the Republic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1190 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044011626280

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Journal by Grand Army of the Republic Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : CORNELL:31924065617858

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Public Opinion by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephen A. Goldman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538161562

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One More War to Fight by Stephen A. Goldman Pdf

This book will captivate readers interested in the legacy of the Civil War, the role of military veterans after they return to civilian life, and the fight against racism in America. Steven A. Goldman looks at the contentious post-Civil War era from the perspective of that special breed, Union soldiers who lived by the bayonet and survived to carry on the fight for equality in the decades to come. He explores the root causes of this historic contest, the changing attitudes of northern servicemen with respect to the Civil War’s purpose, and the psychological effect of involvement in what, from hindsight, was an unfinished work in the cause of freedom and equality for all Americans. Relying on unpublished letters and other primary sources, Goldman uses the veterans’ words and actions to depict their steadfast struggle to preserve the memory and understanding of why the war was fought, and to confront the implications of remembrance, commemoration and reconciliation for America's future.

Author : United Spanish War Veterans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433084469885

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Proceedings ... National Encampment of the United Spanish War Veterans by United Spanish War Veterans Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : United States
ISBN : NYPL:33433079005215

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Journal of the ... National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic by Anonim Pdf

Vol. 83 contains final report of the finances from 1949 to the closing of the organization in 1956.

Author : Ira Remsen,Charles August Rouiller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Chemistry
ISBN : PRNC:32101075695518

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American Chemical Journal by Ira Remsen,Charles August Rouiller Pdf

Author : Bruce A. Glasrud,Michael N. Searles
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781603444491

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Buffalo Soldiers in the West by Bruce A. Glasrud,Michael N. Searles Pdf

In the decades following the Civil War, scores of African Americans served in the U.S. Army in the West. The Plains Indians dubbed them buffalo soldiers, and their record in the infantry and cavalry, a record full of dignity and pride, provides one of the most fascinating chapters in the history of the era. This anthology focuses on the careers and accomplishments of black soldiers, the lives they developed for themselves, their relationships to their officers (most of whom were white), their specialized roles (such as that of the Black Seminoles), and the discrimination they faced from the very whites they were trying to protect. In short, this volume offers important insights into the social, cultural, and communal lives of the buffalo soldiers. The selections are written by prominent scholars who have delved into the history of black soldiers in the West. Previously published in scattered journals, the articles are gathered here for the first time in a single volume, providing a rich and accessible resource for students, scholars, and interested general readers. Additionally, the readings in this volume serve in some ways as commentaries on each other, offering in this collected format a cumulative mosaic that was only fragmentary before. Volume editors Glasrud and Searles provide introductions to the volume and to each of its four parts, surveying recent scholarship and offering an interpretive framework. The bibliography that closes the book will also commend itself as a valuable tool for further research.