Weaving together distinct strands of recent South Asian immigration to the United States, Uncle Swami creates a richly textured analysis of the systems and sentiments behind shifting notions of cultural identity in a post 9/11 world. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.Within hours of the attacks on the World Trade Center, misdirected assaults on Sikhs and other South Asians flared on streets across the nation, serving as harbingers of a more suspicious, less discerning, and increasingly fearful world view that would drastically change ideas of belonging and acceptance in America.

A powerful new indictment of cultural and racial politics in america at the dawn of the twenty first century, uncle swami restores a diasporic community to its full-fledged complexity, beyond both model minorities and the spectres of terrorism. Continuing the conversation sparked by his celebrated work the karma of brown folk, prashad confronts the experience of migration across an expanse of generations and class divisions, from the birth of political activism among second generation immigrants and the meteoric rise of south asian american politicians in republican circles, to migrant workers who are at the mercy of the vicissitudes of the american free market. Weaving together distinct strands of recent south asian immigration to the united states, uncle swami creates a richly textured discussion of a diverse and dynamic people whose identities are all too often lumped together, glossed over or simply misunderstood.

Within hours of the attacks on the world trade centre, misdirected assaults on sikhs and other south asians flared in communities across the us, serving as harbingers of a more suspicious, less discerning and increasingly fearful world view that would drastically change the ideas of belonging and acceptance in america.

Uncle Swami by Vijay Prashad