ISBN:
9781107029002
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (262 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version A History of Prejudice : Race, Caste, and Difference in India and the United States
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
African Americans ; Social conditions ; 20th century
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Caste-based discrimination ; India ; History ; 20th century
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Dalits ; Social conditions ; 20th century
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Discrimination
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Prejudices
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Racism ; United States ; History ; 20th century
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Compares the historical struggles of two geographically disparate populations - Indian Dalits and African Americans - to examine prejudice in two leading democracies
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Figures; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; The Prejudice of the Modern; Juxtaposing African American and Dalit Histories; Internal Colonialism and Local Prejudice; "Rags to Riches" - or the Middle-Class Dream; Quandaries of Development and Democracy; Freedoms Dawn; 2 Prejudice as Difference; Indias Dalits; African Americans and African American Women; The Struggle for Identity; Difference - and Otherness; 3 Dalit Conversion; The Double Bind of the Internally Colonized; Converting the Converter; A Statutory Reinscription of Difference
Description / Table of Contents:
A Law Minister from the Wrong CasteThe Question of a Religious Conversion; Implications of the Dalit Conversion; A Different Sameness; 4 "Double V"; The Double V Campaign6; The Geography of Prejudice; The War Comes Home; The Everyday of "America"; Difference Redefined; 5 An African American Autobiography; Accessing the "Inner Life"; Echoes of a Life in the South; The Destiny of a Woman; The Problem of the Color Line; The Body of History; 6 Dalit Memoirs; The "Inner Cry"; The Body as Text; The Indomitable Self; The Question of Dalit Selfhood; 7 The Persistence of Prejudice
Description / Table of Contents:
Passing - into the MainstreamPassing - by Other Names; The Question of Community, or Appropriate Constituency; The Vernacular and the Universal; Select Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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