Colored Cosmopolitanism : The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India / Nico Slate.
Slate, Nico, author.
2012
E185.61 .S6185 2012
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Title Colored Cosmopolitanism : The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India / Nico Slate.
Author Slate, Nico, author.
ISBN 9780674062962
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674062962
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2011
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource : 17 halftones
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674062962 doi
Call Number E185.61 .S6185 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.800973
Summary A hidden history connects India and the United States, the world's two largest democracies. From the late nineteenth century through the 1960s, activists worked across borders of race and nation to push both countries toward achieving their democratic principles. At the heart of this shared struggle, African Americans and Indians forged bonds ranging from statements of sympathy to coordinated acts of solidarity. Within these two groups, certain activists developed a colored cosmopolitanism, a vision of the world that transcended traditional racial distinctions. These men and women agitated for the freedom of the "colored world," even while challenging the meanings of both color and freedom.Colored Cosmopolitanism is the first detailed examination of both ends of this transnational encounter. Nico Slate tells the stories of neglected historical figures, like the "Eurasian" scholar Cedric Dover, and offers a stunning glimpse of people we thought we knew. Prominent figures such as Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Swami Vivekananda, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Martin Luther King Jr. emerge as never before seen. Slate reveals the full gamut of this exchange--from selective appropriations, to blatant misunderstandings, to a profound empathy--as African Americans and South Asians sought a united front against racism, imperialism, and other forms of oppression.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE. Race, Caste, and Nation
CHAPTER TWO. Racial Diplomacy
CHAPTER THREE. Colored Cosmopolitanism
CHAPTER FOUR. Soul Force
CHAPTER FIVE. Global Double Victory
CHAPTER SIX. Building a Third World
CHAPTER SEVEN. Nonviolence and the Nation
Conclusion
Note on Usage
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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