Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today - Softcover

Prashad, Vijay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1595589406 ISBN 13: 9781595589408

Publisher: The New Press, 2014

Synopsis

A lot more has gone wrong in American politics over the last eight years than meets the eye and it will take more than a new President to create the kind of change that is necessary. Daybreak is a thorough investigation of how the Bush administration altered the way the American government works and deteriorated the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Swanson also makes clear plans for how the US can reclaim democracy. Shocking and inspirational, this is a clear breakdown of all that the US has lost, and a blueprint for all that can be regained.

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Review:

"A passionate book that situates 'Indian America' within its own diversified history and alliances in the United States, within the complex histories of national liberation and Hindu nationalism in India, as well as within the spectrum of struggles in the United States."
—Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University

"Vijay Prashad is our own Frantz Fanon. His writing of protest is always tinged with the beauty of hope."
—Amitava Kumar, author of Passport Photos

"With unflinching clarity and deep compassion, [Prashad] mines the post-9/11 landscape to locate the source of an emerging collective identity as the racial other."
—Rinku Sen, Applied Research Center, and publisher of Colorlines

"This compelling and carefully researched account reveals not only the contradictions in America’s treatment of its South Asian immigrants, but the contradictions of the great American project itself."
—Minal Hajratwala, author of Leaving India

About the Author:

Vijay Prashad is the George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He is the author of The Karma of Brown Folk and The Darker Nations (The New Press); the latter was chosen as a Best Nonfiction Book of the year by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and won the Muzaffar Ahmad Book Prize. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: The New Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1595589406
• ISBN 13: 9781595589408
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 198