Uneasy Embrace (e-bog) af Shankar, Shobana
Shankar, Shobana (forfatter)

Uneasy Embrace e-bog

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The entwined histories of Blacks and Indians defy easy explanation. From Ghanaian protests over Gandhi statues to American Vice President Kamala Harriss story, this relationshipnotwithstanding moments of common struggleseethes with conflicts that reveal how race reverberates throughout the modern world.Shobana Shankars groundbreaking intellectual history tackles the controversial question of ho...
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Forfattere Shankar, Shobana (forfatter)
Udgivet 30 september 2021
Længde 256 sider
Genrer Sociology and anthropology
Sprog English
Format epub
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9781787387348
The entwined histories of Blacks and Indians defy easy explanation. From Ghanaian protests over Gandhi statues to American Vice President Kamala Harriss story, this relationshipnotwithstanding moments of common struggleseethes with conflicts that reveal how race reverberates throughout the modern world.Shobana Shankars groundbreaking intellectual history tackles the controversial question of how Africans and Indians make and unmake their differences. Drawing on archival and oral sources from seven countries, she traces how economic tensions surrounding the Indian diaspora in East and Southern Africa collided with widening Indian networks in West Africa and the Black Atlantic, forcing a racial reckoning over the course of the twentieth century. While decolonisation brought Africans and Indians together to challenge Euro-American white supremacy, discord over caste, religion, sex and skin colour simmered beneath the rhetoric of Afro-Asian solidarity.This book examines the cultural movements, including Pan-Africanism and popular devotionalism, through which Africans and Indians made race consciousness, alongside economic cooperation, a moral priority. Yet rising wealth and nationalist amnesia now threaten this postcolonial ethos. Calls to dismantle statues, from Dakar to Delhi, are not mere symbolism. They express new solidarities which seek to salvage dissenting histories and to preserve the possibility of alternative futures.