Uncle Swami:: South Asians in America Today - Softcover

Prashad Vijay

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9789350299050: Uncle Swami:: South Asians in America Today

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9350299054 ISBN 13: 9789350299050

Publisher: HarperCollins India, 2013

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Within hours of the attacks on the World Trade Center, misdirected assaults on Sikhs and other South Asians flared in communities across the nation, serving as harbingers of a more suspicious, less discerning, and increasingly fearful worldview that would drastically change ideas of belonging and acceptance in America. Weaving together distinct strands of recent South Asian immigration to the United States, Uncle Swami creates a rich discussion of a diverse and dynamic people whose identities are all too often lumped together and misunderstood.

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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 professor of international studies at Trinity College, where he holds the George and Martha Kellner Chair of South Asian History. Prashad is the author of fourteen books. His book, The PoorerNations: A Possible History of the Global South (Verso, 2012), was commended by former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali as a contribution to the intellectual-cumpolitical emancipation of developing countries. He has been published in wellknown newspapers and journals. He edits a series called Dispatches.

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