Intimate Histories

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.

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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