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Transnational connections between African American and German histories in the “century of extremes” are often misunderstood or overlooked. Intimate Histories uncovers important links and sites of struggle in the history of race, the Nazi period, and the fight for civil rights in both East and West Germany. Historical investigations take their points of departure from anti-miscegenation laws, forced sterilizations, or casual sexual, cross-racial encounters to frame the shared pasts of African Americans against broader developments surrounding German Fascism, the Cold War, and global struggles for Black liberation.
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Connecting Histories: The Black Press, “Hitlerism,” and the Sexual Color Line
Chapter 2. Entangling Histories: Intimacy in the Aftermath of Catastrophe
Chapter 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 Alliance
Chapter 6. Reframing Histories: Sexuality and the Discovery of the American Empire
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index