Uncle Swami

“Within hours of the 9/11 attacks, a rash of violence broke out against Sikhs and other South Asians. It was a painful moment of awakening for a diverse group of people who had migrated to the United States since the mid-1960s - and It signaled the start of a more suspicious, and Increasingly fearful, worldview that would drastically change ideas of belonging in America. In UNCLE SWAMI, Vijay Prashad continues the conversation sparked by his celebrated book The Karma of Brown Folk - a clear-sighted assessment of a fast-changing people and world” (Times Literary Supplement) – confronting the…