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.
[Prashad] has set the standard by which future works on the Asian
diaspora must be judged.
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.
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