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... This chapter analyzes the critique of U.S. empire by socially conscious South Asian American (or desi) rappers in the United States and the role of hip hop as the “soundtrack to the revolution(s)” in the Arab Spring. These artists illustrate the concept of “post-9/11 Brown”—an antiracist global...

... of capital,” it offers brief migration histories of six major Asian American ethnic groups—Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, South Asian, and Vietnamese, and identifies their current areas of concentration in the United States. The chapter traces shifts evident in media representations beginning...

... as constituted through specific regimes of affect and temporality. Drawing on South Asian and Asian American scholarship, this chapter situates New Delhi and the San Francisco Bay Area as nodes in the transnational circulation of media, capital, commodities, and populations, and foregrounds the role of public...

... wa Thiong’o’s novel Devil on the Cross (1980). ethnomusicology anticolonialism archive African diaspora Frantz Fanon Ngugi wa Thiong’o This chapter analyzes the critique of U.S. empire by socially conscious South Asian American (or desi) rappers in the United States and the role...

...? Eschewing the conventional segregation of spatialities (Latin American studies versus South Asian studies) that often undergirds the force of the decolonial turn, this chapter engages the emergence of the Samaj in the fraught contexts of colonial Portuguese India. In so doing, the chapter poses one central...