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- catalog abstract """How does it feel to be a problem?" asked W.E.B. Du Bois of black Americans in his classic The Souls of Black Folk. A hundred years later, Vijay Prashad asks South Asians "How does it feel to be a solution?" In this kaleidoscopic critique, Prashad looks into the complexities faced by the members of a "model minority," one, he claims, that is consistently deployed as "a weapon in the war against black America."" "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 challenges the arguments made by Dinesh D'Souza, who heralds South Asian success in the United States, and questions the quiet accommodation to racism made by many South Asians. A look at Deepak Chopra and others who Prashad terms "Godmen" shows us how some South Asians exploit the stereotype of inherent spirituality, much to the chagrin of other South Asians. Tracing the long engagement of American culture with South Asia, Prashad illustrates India's effect on thinkers like Cotton Mather and Henry David Thoreau, Ravi Shankar's influence on John Coltrane, and such essential issues as race versus caste and the connection between antiracism activism and anticolonial resistance."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11516069.
- catalog coverage "United States Race relations.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description """How does it feel to be a problem?" asked W.E.B. Du Bois of black Americans in his classic The Souls of Black Folk. A hundred years later, Vijay Prashad asks South Asians "How does it feel to be a solution?" In this kaleidoscopic critique, Prashad looks into the complexities faced by the members of a "model minority," one, he claims, that is consistently deployed as "a weapon in the war against black America."" "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 challenges the arguments made by Dinesh D'Souza, who heralds South Asian success in the United States, and questions the quiet accommodation to racism made by many South Asians. A look at Deepak Chopra and others who Prashad terms "Godmen" shows us how some South Asians exploit the stereotype of inherent spirituality, much to the chagrin of other South Asians. Tracing the long engagement of American culture with South Asia, Prashad illustrates India's effect on thinkers like Cotton Mather and Henry David Thoreau, Ravi Shankar's influence on John Coltrane, and such essential issues as race versus caste and the connection between antiracism activism and anticolonial resistance."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Karma sutra: the forethought -- Of India -- Of the mysterious East -- Of the oriental menagerie -- Of sly Babas and other gurus -- Of the origin of Desis and some principles of state selection -- Of a Girmit consciousness -- Of authentic cultural lives -- Of Yankee Hindutva -- Of antiblack racism -- Of solidarity and other desires.".
- catalog extent "xv, 253 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0816634386 (hc : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0816634394 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States Race relations.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "305.891/4073 21".
- catalog subject "E184.S69 P73 2000".
- catalog subject "East Indian Americans Race identity.".
- catalog subject "East Indian Americans Social conditions.".
- catalog subject "Racism United States.".
- catalog subject "South Asian Americans Race identity.".
- catalog subject "South Asian Americans Social conditions.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Karma sutra: the forethought -- Of India -- Of the mysterious East -- Of the oriental menagerie -- Of sly Babas and other gurus -- Of the origin of Desis and some principles of state selection -- Of a Girmit consciousness -- Of authentic cultural lives -- Of Yankee Hindutva -- Of antiblack racism -- Of solidarity and other desires.".
- catalog title "The karma of Brown folk / Vijay Prashad.".
- catalog type "text".