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Intimate Histories focuses on intimate relations as sites of shared pasts connecting African American and German history in the years between 1933 and 1990. By tracing topics that include anti-miscegenation laws, forced sterilization, casual sexual encounters, marriage, and friendships, Intimate Histories broadens our understanding of African American–German relations during the so-called “century of extremes.”
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 Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
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