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A review by astronotpoet
The Karma of Brown Folk by Vijay Prashad
4.0
Solid book, well written. In all, I think it sets up a nice set of themes to interrogate around South Asian (American) identity and responsibility. He covers a lions share of relevant topics and sets the stage for good conversations - I read this through a reading circle and it provided good fodder for discussion.
[Some parts of it feel dated and that’s because it is - I wonder how some of his interrogation of South Asian political space would be different if he’d written it post-9/11 and all the racial profiling and hate crimes against SA folks that followed. This part is obviously not a critique, but rather, a note to self to find another text that examines the post-9/11 landscape more closely, that isn’t Desis Divided.]
[Some parts of it feel dated and that’s because it is - I wonder how some of his interrogation of South Asian political space would be different if he’d written it post-9/11 and all the racial profiling and hate crimes against SA folks that followed. This part is obviously not a critique, but rather, a note to self to find another text that examines the post-9/11 landscape more closely, that isn’t Desis Divided.]