What happened when civil rights activist, one-time FBI’s most wanted, scourge of J Edgar Hoover, Angela Davis met the GDR? A lot actually. Want to find out? Join us as we dive into Angela’s early years and into her eventful 20s, growing up surrounded by threats of death and violence in the southern US to studying in Paris, Frankfurt and Berlin. And discover why she holds cult statues for an entire generation of children and youngsters who grew up under the leadership of the GDR. Oh… and there’s a Mitford sister in there, just for laughs! (Pip mispronounces Marcuse, but she’s only just met him and she knows now, ok?!)

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Sources 

The LRB Podcast States of Shock Pankaj Mishra and Adam Shatz

Maria Schubert
Solidarity! Angela Davis and the GDR https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/kul/art/one/22172301.html

Black History for White People- podcast April 6 2022

Autobiography: https://decolonisesociology.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/angela-davis-autobiography.pdf

GDR Solidarity Goethe article https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/kul/art/one/22172301.html#drittens

Sov Union and Angela- “You Are Not Alone”: Angela Davis and the Soviet Dreams of Freedom Maxim Matusevich

"Schwarze Schwester Angela" – Die DDR und Angela Davis. Kalter Krieg, Rassismus und Black Power, 1965–1975, Lorenz, Sophie- Review by David Spreen.

Time Magazine article April 3, 1972 12:00 AM EST: https://time.com/archive/6639469/east-germany-st-angela/ 

'Comrade Angela Davis': An icon in East Germany, Rayna Breuer -DW

„Free Angela Davis!“ – Black Power und die

Jugend der DDR - Maria Schubert

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/05/angela-davis-on-the-power-of-protest-we-cant-do-anything-without-optimism 

Color–blind and Color–coded Racism: Angela Davis, the New Left in Hungary, and “Acting Images” by Kata Krasznahorkai

Who’s Afraid of Angela Davis?: An American Icon and the Political Uses of Youth Literature in the GDR, Ada Bieber

Sarah E James, The Friendship between East Germany and Angela Davis, Frieze,