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.