{"product_id":"colored-cosmopolitanism-9780674979727","title":"Colored Cosmopolitanism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the most fascinating releases of 2012 was \u003ci\u003eColored Cosmopolitanism\u003c\/i\u003e, Nico Slate’s exhaustive history of the ties between the American civil rights movement and India’s inexorable march toward democracy from the 19th century through the 1960s… The dialogue between African-Americans and South Asians chronicled in \u003ci\u003eColored Cosmopolitanism\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the great untold stories of the 20th century. -- Tony Norman * Pittsburgh Post-Gazette *\u003cbr\u003eSlate exhaustively charts the liberation movements of the world’s two largest democracies from the 19th century to the 1960s. There’s more to this connection than the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s debt to Mahatma Gandhi, and Slate tells this fascinating tale better than anyone ever has. -- Tony Norman * Pittsburgh Post-Gazette *\u003cbr\u003eSince the mid-1990s, U.S. scholars have sought to understand the international factors that shaped the U.S. civil rights movements. Within the last decade, transnational studies of the civil rights and Black Power movements have emerged and emphasized the connections between black activists within the African diaspora. Slate breaks new ground by unearthing a ‘hidden history’ of solidarity between anticolonial activists in India and black civil rights activists in the U.S. during the 20th century. The author argues that Indian and black activists were able to transcend physical distance, differing sociohistorical environments, and racial difference (albeit imperfectly) through a shared vision of ‘global double victory’ for the ‘darker races.’ Slate does more than provide a fresh history of the Indian anticolonial movement and the U.S. civil rights movement; his seminal contribution is his development of a nuanced conceptual framework for later historians to apply to studying other transnational social movements. -- K. K. Hill * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eFrom the late 19th to the mid-20th century, Indians and African-Americans found common ground in their fights against colonialism on one side of the world and racism on the other… Gandhi’s influence on Martin Luther King, Jr., the most celebrated of his disciples of non-violence, garners surprisingly few pages here. Instead of traveling down this well-trod path, the author delves deeper into how Gandhi’s African-American contemporaries, such as civil rights stalwarts Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois influenced the Indian leader, precipitating a profound reworking of his thinking on both caste and race. Engagingly written, this sweeping account of these episodes in U.S. and Indian history has the ability to appeal to professional historians as well as general readers. * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eDeeply researched, subtly argued, and written with verve and clarity, \u003ci\u003eColored Cosmopolitanism\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the porousness of national borders—and the importance of international connections for social justice movements. This is superior transnational history. -- Thomas Borstelmann, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cold War and the Color Line\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNico Slate’s important book reveals how African Americans and Indians framed a fluid ‘colored cosmopolitanism,’ embracing an anti-imperial and anti-racist conception of freedom. -- Mary L. Dudziak, author of \u003ci\u003eExporting American Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eColored Cosmopolitanism\u003c\/i\u003e is a testament to a solidarity that thrived despite painful contradictions. A detailed, compelling history that is also an example of effortless storytelling. -- Amitava Kumar, author of \u003ci\u003eA Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNico Slate provides a wide-ranging tour of the interactions that knit together the African American and South Asian freedom movements, as intellectuals and activists fashioned new ideas of freedom and justice, pushing against each others’ worlds to find more generous renderings of social practice and political strategy. -- Vijay Prashad, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Karma of Brown Folk\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Darker Nations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn original, thorough, and elegant consideration of the connections between the Indian and American freedom struggles—and a persuasive reconsideration of the ways in which activists conducted those struggles and conceived of their freedom. -- Stephen Tuck, author of \u003ci\u003eWe Ain’t What We Ought To Be\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403625406807,"sku":"9780674979727","price":19.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674979727.jpg?v=1730484039","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/colored-cosmopolitanism-9780674979727","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}