Colored Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India

By Nico Slate

Book Overview

This is the first detailed account of the transnational encounter between African Americans and South Asians from the nineteenth century through the 1960s as they sought a united front against racism, imperialism, and other forms of oppression. It offers a fresh glimpse of Gandhi, Nehru, Booker T. Washington, Du Bois, and Martin Luther King Jr.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674059670
• ISBN13: 9780674059672
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 343 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"