Colored Cosmopolitanism - Hardcover

Nico Slate

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8178243539 ISBN 13: 9788178243535

Publisher: Permanent Black, 2012

Synopsis

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, Jawahar Lal 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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About the Author

Nico Slate is Assistant Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University. He earned degrees in Earth Systems and the Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities from Stanford University and in Environmental Change and Management from Oxford University before completing his PhD in History at Harvard University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Permanent Black
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8178243539
• ISBN 13: 9788178243535
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 321