On the tenth anniversary of the publication of his celebrated work The Karma of Brown Folk, Vijay Prashad traces his intellectual journey from that work to his newly released Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today (New Press, 2012), which reframes The Karma of Brown Folk’s pivotal question (“How does it feel to be a solution?”) to consider post-9/11 paranoia, the rise of South Asian Americans in the Republican Party, and South Asian migrant laborers in post-Katrina New Orleans.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 from 4 pm – 6 pm
CUNY Graduate Center Room 9204
Free and open to the public
VIJAY PRASHAD is a Professor of International Studies at Trinity College (Hartford). His most recent books are Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today (New Press), Arab Spring, Libyan Winter (AK Press) and [with Qalandar Bux Memon and Madiha Tahir] Dispatches from Pakistan (Leftword Books). He writes regularly for Counterpunch, Frontline and Asia
Times.
Organized by AsianAmericanists@CUNY
Generously co-sponsored by: The Office of the President, The American Studies Certificate Program,
and The Mellon Committee on Globalization and Social Change, CUNY Graduate Center; Hunter College Asian American Studies Program, AAARI: CUNY Asian American/Asian Research Institute; NYU A/P/A Institute.
and The Mellon Committee on Globalization and Social Change, CUNY Graduate Center; Hunter College Asian American Studies Program, AAARI: CUNY Asian American/Asian Research Institute; NYU A/P/A Institute.
