A Clash of Color
Dialogues on Race, Caste, and Solidarity in the United States and India
Published on 23. January 2025
Book
Hardback
215 pages
978-1-009-52678-4 (ISBN)
Description
The marginalization of Black Americans due to white supremacy and the oppression of Indians under British colonialism featured inescapable similarities. At the turn of the twentieth century, these parallels led Indian and Black nationalists, intellectuals, and activists to share their experiences and engage in dialogues towards improving the social status of their people. Specifically, Black internationalists such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Walter White, and Paul Robeson studied the Indian independence movement, and came to regard India as a template in the fight against white supremacy in the US. Similarly various Indians including Rabindranath Tagore, Lala Lajpat Rai, B. R. Ambedkar, and Taraknath Das theorized crucial parallels between race, colonialism and caste when studying the experiences of Black Americans. This book analyzes how they came together in their desire to overthrow the structures that subjugated them.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
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Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
490 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-009-52678-4 (9781009526784)
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Avinash Hingorani is CAUSE Postdoctoral Fellow at The Center for African American Studies and the Economy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania.His areas of interest are evaluating race, caste and class from an international and comparative perspective, caste marginalization in both the United States and India, comparing the mass incarceration and criminalization of Black Americans in the United States to the criminalization of low-caste Indians in India, and global, racial and social justice.
Content
Acknowledgements; Prologue; Introduction; 1. Rabindranath Tagore in America: Ideas and impact; 2. Lala Har Dayal, Taraknath Das and the Ghadar Party; 3. Lala Lajpat Rai and W. E. B. Du Bois; 4. Lala Lajpat Rai in India; 5. W. E. B. Du Bois and the Indian Independence Movement; 6. W. E. B. Du Bois, Walter White, and B. R. Ambedkar's Quest to Address Race, Caste, and Class; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.