Vijay Prashad, Author University of Minnesota Press $57 (248p) ISBN 978-0-8166-3438-5
Taking a cue from W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk--which poses the question, ""How does it feel to be a problem?""--Prashad's book on race relations asks Asians, ""How does it feel to be a solution?"" An assistant professor of international
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Vijay Prashad. New Press (Perseus, dist.), $21.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-59558-784-8
As Trinity College’s South Asian history professor Prashad (The Karma of Brown Folk) writes, for South Asian–Americans, “the miasma of international relations interrupts our lives constantly.” His latest begins by illustrating the ways in which...
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Vijay Prashad. AK (www.akpress.org), $14.95 trade paper (200p) ISBN 978-1-84935-112-6
In one of five books he will release this year, Trinity College South Asian history professor Prashad (The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World) attempts to exhaustively show “how the Atlantic powers insinuated themselves into the...
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Vijay Prashad. Verso (Norton, dist.), $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-84467-952-2
This exhaustively documented work of economic and diplomatic history analyzes hemispheric inequality between the wealthy industrialized north and the “global south” (less-developed nations that are emerging from their postcolonial economic torpor),...
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Vijay Prashad, Author, Howard Zinn, Editor . New Press $25.95 (364p) ISBN 978-1-56584-785-9
Scholarly but accessible, this history of Third World intellectual
\t\t thought and politics captures the shared ideals, institutions and strategies
\t\t that have united the Latin American countries and the new Asian and African
\t\t states that
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Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad. New Press, $24.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-62097-760-6
Linguist Chomsky (The Responsibility of Intellectuals) and historian Prashad (The Darker Nations) take a blistering tour of U.S. foreign policy failures. In a series of edited conversations, the authors contend that U.S.-led military interventions...
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