Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Bidyut Chakrabarty is former Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. Before he was appointed Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharati in 2018, he served the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, India, for more than three decades. He has published in many areas of Political Science.
Presenting a unique East meets West subaltern history of the twentieth century, this book juxtaposes the political lives and ideas of B. R. Ambedkar and Malcolm X, homing in on their respective struggles against caste and racial discrimination. Despite the differences in their backgrounds, the two thinkeractivists had significantly overlapping worldviews, shaped by their experiences of identity-based oppression, marginalization, and institutional violence. This book explores those overlaps, with a view to analysing how Ambedkar and Malcolm X’s legacies live on in civil rights movements and discourse the world over.
The volume will be of interest to researchers and scholars of race, caste and discrimination studies, history, African-American studies and South Asian studies.
This book traces the political lives and ideas of B.R. Ambedkar and Malcolm X, and their struggles against caste and racial discrimination to present a unique East meets West subaltern history of the twentieth century. It explores their overlapping worldviews which were shaped by their experiences of violence, marginalisation and racism.
Preface viii
Introduction 1
1 Critique of exploitation: Intellectual roots 12
2 Two rebels in two hemispheres 49
3 Conversion as a mode of protest 86
4 Lonely fighters with contrarian views and defiant practices 116
5 In the struggle for dignity – redesigning humanism 149
Conclusion 182
Bibliography 194
Index 199
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Bidyut Chakrabarty is former Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. Before he was appointed Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharati in 2018, he served the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, India, for more than three decades. He has published in many areas of Political Science.