{"product_id":"uncle-swami-south-asians-in-america-today-9781595589408","title":"Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today","description":"Within hours of the attacks on the World Trade Center, misdirected assaults on Sikhs and other South Asians flared in communities across the nation, serving as harbingers of a more suspicious, less discerning, and increasingly fearful worldview that would drastically change ideas of belonging and acceptance in America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWeaving together distinct strands of recent South Asian immigration to the United States, \u003ci\u003eUncle Swami\u003c\/i\u003e examines a diverse and dynamic people whose identities are all too often lumped together, glossed over, or simply misunderstood. Vijay Prashad confronts the experience of migration across an expanse of generations and class divisions, from the birth of political activism among second-generation immigrants and the meteoric rise of South Asian American politicians in Republican circles to migrant workers at the mercy of the vicissitudes of the American free market. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDescribed as \"eye-opening\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e), \"bound to spark discussion\" (\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e), and \"required reading for anyone who wants to understand race, assimilation, and patriotism (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eUncle Swami\u003c\/i\u003e restores a diasporic community to its full-fledged complexity beyond both model minorities and the specters of terrorism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVijay Prashad \u003c\/b\u003eis director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, editor of LeftWord Books, and the chief correspondent for Globetrotter. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World, Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today, and \u003c\/i\u003eco-author (with Noam Chomsky) of \u003ci\u003eThe Withdrawa\u003c\/i\u003el (all published by The New Press), as well as \u003ci\u003eWashington Bullets\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe Darker Nations\u003c\/i\u003e was chosen as a Best Nonfiction Book of the Year by the Asian American Writers' Workshop and won the Muzaffar Ahmad Book Prize. He lives in Santiago, Chile, and Northampton, Massachusetts.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50421152317714,"sku":"9781595589408","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_88eae876-5f33-4184-a75f-36c8aa5b65dc.jpg?v=1729502945","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/uncle-swami-south-asians-in-america-today-9781595589408","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}