The Karma of Brown Folk By Vijay Prashad

Karma of Brown FolkAuthor(s): Vijay Prashad\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816634392, 978-0816634392\nSynopsis\nVillage Voice Favorite Books of 2000\n\n The popular book challenging the idea of a model minority, now in paperback!How does it feel to be a problem? asked W. E. B. Du Bois of black Americans in his classicThe Souls of Black [url] hundred years later, Vijay Prashad asks South Asians How does it feel to be a solution? In this kaleidoscopic critique, Prashad looks into the complexities faced by the members of a model minority-one, he claims, that is consistently deployed as \""a weapon in the war against black America.\""\n\nOn a vast canvas,The Karma of Brown Folkattacks the two pillars of the model minority image, that South Asians are both inherently successful and pliant, and analyzes the ways in which [url] immigration policy and American Orientalism have perpetuated these s.