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Caste or colony ? Indianizing race in the United States

Since the 1830s thinkers in both the United States and India have sought to establish analogies between their respective countries. Although many have felt the US black experience to have obvious parallels in India, there has been a fundamental disagreement about whether being black is comparable to...

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Main Author: daniel immerwahr
Format: Printed Book
Published: Modern Intellectual History, 4, 2 (2007), pp. 275-301 2007
Online Access:http://10.26.1.76/ks/003160.pdf
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