Before Bandung: Afro-Asian Cross-referencing and Comparative Racialization.
This essay analyzes the rhetorical and political connections between African American and South Asian critiques of race and empire in the century leading up to the Bandung conference in 1955. Specifically, we trace the way "caste" emerges as a key rhetorical term in the mid-to-late nineteenth centur...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Social History Vol. 54; no. 2; pp. 599 - 623 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Winter2020
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