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Colored Cosmopolitanism : The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India / Nico Slate.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource : 17 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674059672
  • 9780674062962
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.800973 22
LOC classification:
  • E185.61 .S6185 2012
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
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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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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