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Uncle Swami : South Asians in America
Author(s): Vijay Prashad (Author)
- Publisher: The New Press
- Publication Date: 14 Jun. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 198 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781595587848
- ISBN-13: 1595587845
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
―Abraham Verghese, bestselling author of My Own Country and Cutting for Stone
[Prashad’s] scholarly analysis of the current Islamophobia is laced with great quotes from scholars and activists, including Gandhi on the limits of tradition and Tolstoy on feel-good liberalism (give to the poor but don’t change anything). Like Prashad’s prizewinning
The Darker Nations (2008), this is bound to spark discussion as he juxtaposes the platitudes of multiculturalism, which celebrate the peoples and traditions of “other” lands (Africa, Asia, Latin America), against the unchanging truth that non-Western continues to be viewed as subordinate.―Booklist
About the Author
Vijay Prashad is director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, editor of LeftWord Books, and the chief correspondent for Globetrotter. He is the author of The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World, Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today, and co-author (with Noam Chomsky) of The Withdrawal (all published by The New Press), as well as Washington Bullets. The Darker Nations 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 Santiago, Chile.
