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The Karma of Brown Folk
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On a vast canvas, The Karma of Brown Folk attacks the two pillars of the "model minority" image, that South Asians are both inherently successful and pliant, and analyzes the ways in which U.S. immigration policy and American Orientalism have perpetuated these stereotypes. Prashad uses irony, humor, razor-sharp criticism, personal reflections, and ...
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Dispatches from Latin America: On the Frontlines Against Neoliberalism
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Teo Ballve (Editor), Vijay Prashad (Editor)
Dispatches charts Latin America's aspirations and challenges. From the laboratory of neoliberalism-popularly known as "globalization" -Latin America has transformed itself into a launching pad for resistance. As globalization began to spread its devastation, robust and thoughtful opposition emerged in response-in the recovered factory movement ...
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The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World
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Vijay Prashad, Howard Zinn, Ph.D. (Editor)
An alternative Account of the Cold War from the point of the view of the world's poor--"The first comprehensive political history of the third world as concept and as project" Immanuel Wallerstein). ""The Third World today faces Europe like a colossal mass whose project should be to try to resolve the problems to which Europe has not been able to ...
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Fat Cats & Running Dogs: The Enron Stage of Capitalism
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Vijay Prashad
From the author of two Village Voice books of the year comes a ruthless expose of the raptors at Enron. Behind the screams over workers' disappearing pensions, disappearing jobs, and disappearing CEO responsibility lies a bigger story: What Enron has done to the world. Included is "A Manual for Corporate Terrestrial Conquest," complete with juicy ...
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Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity
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Vijay Prashad
A revolutionary reappraisal of Afro-Asian relationships that will change multiculturalism as we know it In this landmark work, historian Vijay Prashad refuses to engage the typical racial discussion that matches people of color against each other while institutionalizing the primacy of the white majority. Instead, he examines more than five ...
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Dragon Wore Kicks: Afro-Asian Connections to the Post-Racial World
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Vijay Prashad
In 1992 the U.S. media was treated to "conflict" between blacks and Asians during the Los Angeles uprising. The event crystallized white-supremacist stereotypes of blacks as the "problem" minority and Asians as the successful "model" minority. In this landmark work, historian Vijay Prashad refuses to engage this typical racial discussion. ...
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Keeping Up with the Dow Joneses: Debt, Prison, Workfare
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Vijay Prashad
In this short but powerful book of interlinked essays, noted cultural critic Vijay Prashad examines the contradictions of the American economy. Prashad assesses a range of related issues: the oft-vaunted US economy, propped up by the rising debt of poor and middle-class workers; welfare policies that punish those attempting to escape the grip of ...
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Afroasian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics
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Heike Raphael-Hernandez (Editor), Shannon Steen (Editor), Vijay Prashad (Foreword by)
How might we understand yellowface performances by African Americans in 1930s swing adaptations of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, Paul Robeson's support of Asian and Asian American struggles, or the absorption of hip hop by Asian American youth culture?AfroAsian Encounters is the first anthology to look at the mutual influence of and ...
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Untouchable Freedom: A Social History of a Dalit Community
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Vijay Prashad
This volume is on the Balmikis of Delhi, who work as sanitation workers and keep the city clean. They live in poverty and face sustained discrimination. In response the Balmikis fight to liberate themselves. Untouchable Freedom is the first comprehensive study of this community and traces their struggles from the 1860s to the present, as they have ...
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War Against the Planet: The Fifth Afghan War, Imperialism, and Other Assorted Fundamentalisms
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Enron blowout : corporate capitalism and theft of the global commons
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Prabir Purkayastha, Vijay Prashad
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The American Scheme: Three Essays
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Vijay Prashad
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Current Trends in Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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Vijay H. Prashad
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Keeping Up with the Dow Joneses: Stocks, Jails, Welfare
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Vijay Prashad, Alfredo Molano
In this short but powerful book of interlinked essays, noted cultural critic Vijay Prashad examines the contradictions of the American economy. Prashad assesses a range of related issues: the oft-vaunted US economy, propped up by the rising debt of poor and middle-class workers; welfare policies that punish those attempting to escape the grip of ...
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