PDF-(BOOK)-The Karma of Brown Folk

What does it mean to be a model minorityHow does it feel to be a problem asked W E B Du Bois of black Americans in his classic The Souls of Black Folk A hundred years later Vijay Prashad asks South Asians How does it feel to be a solutionIn this kaleidoscopic critique Prashad looks into the complexities faced by the members of a model minorityone he claims that is consistently deployed as a weapon in the war against black America On a vast canvas The Karma of Brown Folk attacks the two pillars of the model minority imagethat South Asians are both inherently successful and pliantand analyzes the ways in which US immigration policy and American Orientalism have perpetuated these stereotypesPrashad uses irony humor razorsharp criticism personal reflections and historical research to challenge the arguments made by Dinesh DSouza who heralds South Asian success in the US and to question the quiet accommodation to racism made by many South Asians A look at Deepak Chopra and others whom Prashad terms Godmen shows us how some South Asians exploit the stereotype of inherent spirituality much to the chagrin of other South AsiansFollowing the long engagement of American culture with South Asia Prashad traces Indias effect on thinkers like Cotton Mather and Henry David Thoreau Ravi Shankars influence on John Coltrane and such essential issues as race versus caste and the connection between antiracism activism and anticolonial resistance The Karma of Brown Folk locates the birth of the model minority myth placing it firmly in the context of reaction to the struggle for Black Liberation Prashad reclaims the long history of black and South Asian solidarity discussing joint struggles in the US the Caribbean South Africa and elsewhere and exposes how these powerful moments of alliance faded from historical memory and were replaced by Indian support for antiblack racismUltimately Prashad writes not just about South Asians in America but about America itself in the tradition of Tocqueville Du Bois Richard Wright and others He explores the place of collective struggle and multiracial alliances in the transformation of self and communityin short how Americans define themselvesVijay Prashad is assistant professor of international studies at Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut. 24 NO 07 Is it necessary that in this Kaliyug hard times we cannot endeavor for liberation There is actually no age when everything can be good or bad Both good and bad elements have been prevailing together at all the times N57572nass57572varanijja S. 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Luzon in the northern most part of the Philippine Archipelago that includes the island of Luzon itself, the Batanes and Babuyan groups of islands to the north, and outlying islands of Catanduanes, Marinduque, Masbate, Romblon, Palawan, and Mindoro in the south. Luzon is the economic and political center of the Philippines, being home to the country’s capital city, Manila.