A history of prejudice : race, caste, and difference in India and the United States /

Pandey, Gyanendra, 1949-

A history of prejudice : race, caste, and difference in India and the United States / Gyanendra Pandey. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xv, 243 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- Prejudice as difference -- Dalit conversion: the assertion of sameness -- 'Double V': the everyday of race relations -- An African American autobiography: re-locating difference -- Dalit memoirs: re-scripting the body -- The persistence of prejudice.

Compares the historical struggles of two geographically disparate populations - Indian Dalits and African Americans - to examine prejudice in two leading democracies.



9781107314566 9781139237376 9781107309012


Racism--History--United States--20th century.
Caste-based discrimination--History--India--20th century.
African Americans--Social conditions--20th century.
Dalits--Social conditions--20th century.
Discrimination.
Prejudices.


Electronic Books.

E185 / .H578 2013