An uneasy embrace : Africa, India and the spectre of race / Shobana Shankar.
2021
DS450.A35 S54 2021 (Mapit)
On loan from General Collection, due 22. Dec 2022
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Title
An uneasy embrace : Africa, India and the spectre of race / Shobana Shankar.
Author
Shankar, Shobana, author.
ISBN
0197619401
9780197619407
9780197619407
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
xiv, 285 pages ; 22 cm.
Call Number
DS450.A35 S54 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.48/25406
Summary
"The entwined histories of Blacks and Indians defy easy explanation. From Ghanaian protests over Gandhi statues to American Vice President Kamala Harris's story, this relationship--notwithstanding moments of common struggle--seethes with conflicts that reveal how race reverberates throughout the modern world. Shobana Shankar's 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 decolonization brought Africans and Indians together to challenge Euro-American white supremacy, discord over caste, religion, sex and skin color 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." -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-270) and index.
Series
African arguments.
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Table of Contents
A cultural economy between the Black Atlantic and Indian Ocean
Fears of Indian independence
Race as postcolonial strategy
Third World science: diasporic dreams and disillusionment
Hinduism's Black Atlantic itinerary
Négritude beats Bollywood.
Fears of Indian independence
Race as postcolonial strategy
Third World science: diasporic dreams and disillusionment
Hinduism's Black Atlantic itinerary
Négritude beats Bollywood.