Prashad
Biographic Data
| ID | 11073 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Prashad |
| FAMILY NAME | Prashad |
| SIGNATURE | PRASHAD |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hartford Financial Services (United States) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0631-7266 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 63 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 274 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 63 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Réflexions sur l’histoire populaire
Cet article réfléchit à l’évolution, à l’érosion et à la nécessité contemporaine de l’histoire populaire en tant que méthode et projet politique. Apparue parallèlement à l’historiographie moderne au lendemain de la Révolution française, l’histoire populaire cherchait à l’origine à mettre les classes laborieuses au centre, à redonner la parole aux marginalisés et à analyser la société à travers le prisme marxiste de la lutte des classes. Des histo…
We Are Children of the Nonaligned: Walking with My Friend Samia Zennadi in Algiers
Samia Zennadi was an editor and publisher in Algiers, Algeria, who played a very important role on the African continent to uphold Pan-African values that were rooted in the Algerian Revolution of 1962. Her death in 2025 is an enormous loss for her country and her continent
The Idea of the "Uyghur Genocide" and the Realities of Xinjiang
What is really happening in Xinjiang? Vijay Prashad and Tings Chak write: "There is no evidence of a policy of physical annihilation of the Uyghur peoples by the Chinese government, unlike say, direct evidence of extermination by the Israeli government against the occupied Palestinian people. There are no mass graves and no accusations of systematic killing—the hallmarks of a genocide
Could Capitalism Have Thrived Without Colonialism: A Commentary on Vivek Chibber's Jacobin Radio Interview
Vijay Prashad critiques the argument that colonialism was, at most, ancillary to the transition between capitalism and feudalism in Western Europe. Instead, Prashad argues, "capitalism as it historically emerged—industrial, global, racialized, and imperial—was inseparable from colonial expropriation." This reality must fuel a Marxist conception of the global struggle for reparations for those who have been oppressed and exploited at the hands of …
The World Wants to Advance to Socialism
In this far-reaching analysis, Vijay Prashad enumerates the conditions of the current conjuncture that, despite seemingly intractable capitalist and imperialist hegemony, point to a reinvigorated revolutionary consciousness among the global population. In a world of capitalist degradation, Prashad declares: "A politics to produce dignity is a socialist politics.... Capitalism inherently generates forms of inequality and indignity. Therefore, all …
Critical Engagements with Alberto Toscano’s Late Fascism: The far Right of a special type
Palestine Book Forum
The Actuality of Red Africa
What is "Red Africa"? Through an extended treatment of Kevin Ochieng Okoth's Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics (Verso, 2023), Vijay Prashad and Mikaela Nhondo Erskog illuminate the potential for a reinvigorated socialist politics in Africa. In turning away from Afropessimism and Decolonial Studies, the authors catalog the on-the-ground realities at play in pan-African and Marxist social movements today
Afrika souverän? (Debatte)
Bibliographie: Prashad, Vijay/Erskog, Mikaela: Afrika souverän? (Debatte), UN-Hauptquartier, New York, NY., PERIPHERIE – Politik • Ökonomie • Kultur, Nr. 169+170 (1-2023), S. 119-124. https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v43i1.07-----Open-Access-Lizenz: Dieser Beitrag ist ab dem 31.08.2025 im Open Access unter der Creative-Commons-Lizenz CC BY 4.0 (Namensnennung 4.0 International) verfügbar. Weitere Informationen zur Lizenz und den Nutzungsbedingun…
Africa Is on the Move
The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World
Africa Is on the Move
In 1975, Walter Rodney said, Africa is on the move. This line stays with me, digs deep into my sense of historical possibility. What did Rodney mean when he said that line
AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics
As is always the case, this volume owes a large debt to a wide range of people who showed their genuine interest in the fundamental ideas of AfroAsian Encounters and participated with challenging discussions at many different sites and occasions.The inspiration for the project came, for Shannon, from a seminar with Harry Elam, without whom her area of research would never have materialized.Paul Spickard provided the initial impetus for our first …
O Lenin internacionalista: Autodeterminação e anticolonialismo
Uma leitura atenta dos ensaios de Lenin sobre a autodeterminação escritos a partir de 1915 nos permite perceber um tema central de anticolonialismo na sua obra. Não surpreende, portanto, que Lenin pressionava a Internacional Comunista a aprimorar seu trabalho anticolonial e anti-imperialista. Somente ao entender esse aspecto do trabalho de Lenin é possível apreender por que tantos movimentos para a libertação nacional se voltaram para o marxismo-…
The Wretchedness of the Indian Ruling Class
India's Liberalisation Project and the Future of Trade Unions
India's ruling class, since the liberalisation period that began in 1991, has attempted to fragment and weaken India's trade union movement. The main instrument for this weakening is to be the imf-drive 'labour market reform' agenda. However, the Indian working class has struggled against the structural process of being integrated into the global value chain, a process that has put pressure on the trade union movement even as trade union laws rem…
Between Two Clarities
Other| May 01 2018 Between Two Clarities Vijay Prashad Vijay Prashad Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (131): 211–218. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-4355365 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Vijay Prashad; Between Two Clarities. Radical History Review 1 May 2018; 2018 (131): 211–218. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-4355365 Do…
The time of the Popular Front
Our political world is impoverished by the lack of the category ‘imperialism’. Academic and media languages have succeeded in consigning it to history. Use of the category imperialism to describe our present condition is often met with derision; it is seen in the bourgeois tongue as too simplistic, as outdated, as Leftist bombast. But what other category do we have to explain the kinds of extra-economic institutional coercion meted out to the Thi…
Alex Lubin. Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary
Journal Article Alex Lubin. Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary. Get access Alex Lubin. Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary. (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Pp. xiii, 233. $29.95. Vijay Prashad Vijay Prashad Trinity College [email protected] Search for other works by t…
Towards a Happy Ending
ions are important, but when too far detached from the mulch of things they become ludicrous. If the abstractions are firmly rooted in Tradition, it becomes harder both to question them and
The Desi Diaspora: Politics, Protest, and Nationalism
Over the course of the past two centuries, millions of people from the South Asian subcontinent moved to the continents of the world. Unlike earlier migrants, Indians who formed part of this more recent diaspora tended to retain links with their homeland, making their diaspora one which was more inflected by colonialism and nationalism. Consequently, the diaspora that has emerged in Britain and North America cannot be easily disentangled from the…
Active History
In 2011 the editors of the Canada-based journal Left History ran a special issue on “Active History.“ Jim Clifford of York University pointed out that one aspect of the active history project “is for historians to work with and share authority with the community whose history they study.“ This is not quite the same as activist history, nor is it a project that simply suggests that history matters. The tenor is to see if academic historians could …
World on a Slope
Quid Pro Quo? The Question of India’s Subordination to the ‘American Narrative’
In April 2011, the Wall Street Journal's South Asia columnist Sadanand Dhume published a piece entitled "It's Time to Re-Align India." Meeting in Hainan, China, the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) called for a multipolar world (i.e. one no longer dominated by the Atlantic powers, led by the United States) and for a less militaristic approach to common problems—with special reference to the imbroglio in Libya, fast becoming …
Sadrist Stratagems
Vijay Prashad on Patrick Cockburn, Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq. Perceptive portrait of the Occupation’s single most elusive foe, and of the traditions of Shia militancy from which he descends
The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World
The protean forms of Yankee Hindutva
Movements in the diaspora must perforce settle accounts with the cultural frameworks within which they operate. When the Hindu Right sets off from the shores of South Asia, it has to come to terms with its new location. In the United States, it constitutes a Yankee Hindutva - where it asserts itself in the space allowed by multiculturalism. To delink itself from its shabby heritage in the subcontinent, Yankee Hindutva adopts many, protean, forms …
The Technology of Sanitation in Colonial Delhi
I. Sewage Under CapitalismThe preservation of the wealth and welfare of nations, and advances in culture and civilisation depend on how the sewage question is resolved.(von Liebig, 1850s).Delhi is a very suggestive and moralising place-such stupendous remains of power and wealth passed and passing away-and somehow I feel that we horrid English have just 'gone and done it', merchandised it, revenue it, and spoiled it all. (Emily Eden, 1838).Veena …
Bruce Lee and the Anti-imperialism of Kung Fu: A Polycultural Adventure
Research Article| February 01 2003 Bruce Lee and the Anti-imperialism of Kung Fu: A Polycultural Adventure Vijay Prashad Vijay Prashad Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2003) 11 (1): 51–90. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-11-1-51 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Vijay Prashad; Bruce Lee and the Anti-imperialism of Kung Fu: A Polycultural Adventur…
Native Dirt/Imperial Ordure: The Cholera of 1832 and the morbid resolutions of Modernity
Why is India treated as the standing menace to the public health of the world? Is it something peculiar to Indian tradition which prevents India from enjoying the fruits of universal modernity? Or perhaps, is it the emergence of institutions and of other politically organized subjections in a history of colonialism which endowed India with a brand of colonial modernity? By using the cholera epidemic of 1832 and the efforts to rebuild and restruct…
Afro-Dalits of the Earth, Unite
Un groupe de chercheurs afro-americains et dalit travaille actuellement sur un projet portant sur les similarites dans l'histoire et la vie des peuples africains et dalit. Des chercheurs tels que Ivan van Sertima, Runoko Rashidi, V. T. Rajshekar et d'autres forment ce reseau occulte de recherche et publications afro-dalit. Le Projet afro-dalit cherche a avancer une origine commune pour les Africains et les Dalit dans le but d'appeler a la solidar…
Marks of Capital: Colonialism and the Sweepers of Delhi
In a sub-field of Marxism, A.G. Frank and E. Laclau debated the intricate details of Frank's critique of the “dualist thesis”. That thesis argued that capitalism failed to overcome feudalism in its colonial adventure; Frank argued that to posit the duality between capital and feudal forms does violence to the structural integration of feudal forms into the logic of capital. Frank's critique, however, remained wedded to a level of abstraction whic…
Ethnic Studies Inside Out
Ethnic Studies Inside Out Vijay Prashad (bio) Ethnic studies is in its good times. The funding situation is bleak, and the institutional support tepid. But, we've got the ideas. In the past few years I've read books, articles, and dissertations on such exciting themes as the collaboration between California's Chicano and Filipino workforce, the writings of Jewish Americans on Native America, the travels of Langston Hughes in Soviet Central Asia, …
Exiles from a Future Land: Moving Beyond Coalitional Politics
The time of the Popular Front
Our political world is impoverished by the lack of the category ‘imperialism’. Academic and media languages have succeeded in consigning it to history. Use of the category imperialism to describe our present condition is often met with derision; it is seen in the bourgeois tongue as too simplistic, as outdated, as Leftist bombast. But what other category do we have to explain the kinds of extra-economic institutional coercion meted out to the Thi…
Section I: Resistances and Reflections
Could Edward Said have known at the time he wrote Orientalism that he would not only be revolutionizing the field of Middle East Studies and the disciplines at its core, but also a number of allied and aligned fields, one of which, Women's Studies, had not fully come into being? This presentation is about genealogies of knowledge, in this case Middle East gender studies. It is about counter-hegemonic thought, in this case, the rupture of the gene…
Comrade Robeson: A Centennial Tribute to an American Communist
The killing of Bala Shah and the birth of Valmiki: Hinduisation and the politics of religion
World on a Slope
Dilemmas at the Border: An Introduction
Critical Engagements with Alberto Toscano’s Late Fascism: The far Right of a special type
The Global War against Teachers
Research Article| May 01 2006 The Global War against Teachers Vijay Prashad Vijay Prashad Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (95): 9–20. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2006-95-9 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Vijay Prashad; The Global War against Teachers. Radical History Review 1 May 2006; 2006 (95): 9–20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-…
How the Hindus Became Jews: American Racism after 9/11
Research Article| July 01 2005 How the Hindus Became Jews: American Racism after 9/11 Vijay Prashad Vijay Prashad Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2005) 104 (3): 583–606. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-104-3-583 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Vijay Prashad; How the Hindus Became Jews: American Racism after 9/11. South Atlantic …
Genteel Racism
The Cold War and the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years , by Noam Chomsky, et al./ Universities and Empire: Money and Politics in the Social Sciences during the Cold War ,…
(1999). The Cold War and the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years, by Noam Chomsky, et al./Universities and Empire: Money and Politics in the Social Sciences during the Cold War, ed. Christopher Simpson. Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars: Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 79-80
The Making of the Indian Working Class: The Case of the Tata Iron and Steel Company, 1880-1946
No Sweat
Research Article| January 01 1997 No Sweat Vijay Prashad Vijay Prashad Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1997) 10 (1): 193–199. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10-1-193 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Vijay Prashad; No Sweat. Public Culture 1 January 1997; 10 (1): 193–199. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10-1-193 Download citation file…
Emergency Assessments
Contract Labor: The Latest Stage of Illiberal Capitalism
Much has been made in recent years about the transformations in the nature of the world. We witnessed the beginnings of a post-Cold War world, the inauguration of a New World Order, the end of "welfare" capitalism, the maturity of transnational corporations, and the atrophy of working-class politics in Euro-America. Through optimistic adjectives, the Euro-American media tell a story that everything has changed for the better and that humanity is …
Native Dirt/Imperial Ordure: The Cholera of 1832 and the morbid resolutions of Modernity
Why is India treated as the standing menace to the public health of the world? Is it something peculiar to Indian tradition which prevents India from enjoying the fruits of universal modernity? Or perhaps, is it the emergence of institutions and of other politically organized subjections in a history of colonialism which endowed India with a brand of colonial modernity? By using the cholera epidemic of 1832 and the efforts to rebuild and restruct…
Marks of Capital: Colonialism and the Sweepers of Delhi
In a sub-field of Marxism, A.G. Frank and E. Laclau debated the intricate details of Frank's critique of the “dualist thesis”. That thesis argued that capitalism failed to overcome feudalism in its colonial adventure; Frank argued that to posit the duality between capital and feudal forms does violence to the structural integration of feudal forms into the logic of capital. Frank's critique, however, remained wedded to a level of abstraction whic…
The killing of Bala Shah and the birth of Valmiki: Hinduisation and the politics of religion
Emesto 'Che' Guevara - The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey around South America
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Emergency Assessments
Washington Babylon
Review of Washington Babylon by Alexander Cockburn and Ken Silverstein.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Comrade Robeson: A Centennial Tribute to an American Communist
The Making of the Indian Working Class: The Case of the Tata Iron and Steel Company, 1880-1946
No Sweat
Research Article| January 01 1997 No Sweat Vijay Prashad Vijay Prashad Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1997) 10 (1): 193–199. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10-1-193 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Vijay Prashad; No Sweat. Public Culture 1 January 1997; 10 (1): 193–199. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10-1-193 Download citation file…
Living for Change: An Autobiography (review)
Reviewed by: Living for Change: An Autobiography Vijay Prashad Living for Change: An Autobiography. By Grace Lee Boggs. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1998. A warm ghazal [Urdu poem] offers us the following humanist statement: “aadmi tha, bari mushkil se insan hua” (we were people; with great difficulty we became human). The import of this is that we homo sapiens think that we are “human” just because we exist. Actually, our humanity is on…
Anti-D'Souza: The Ends of Racism and the Asian American
The Cold War and the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years , by Noam Chomsky, et al./ Universities and Empire: Money and Politics in the Social Sciences during the Cold War ,…
(1999). The Cold War and the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years, by Noam Chomsky, et al./Universities and Empire: Money and Politics in the Social Sciences during the Cold War, ed. Christopher Simpson. Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars: Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 79-80
The karma of Brown folk
On a vast canvas, The Karma of Brown Folk attacks the two pillars of the model minority image, that South Asians are both inherently successful and pliant, and analyzes the ways in which U.S. immigration policy and American Orientalism have perpetuated these stereotypes. Prashad uses irony, humor, razor-sharp criticism, personal reflections, and historical research to challenge the arguments made by Dinesh D'Souza, who heralds South Asian success…
Genteel Racism
Atomic Mayhem in South Asia
New Nukes: India, Pakistan, and Global Nuclear Disarmament by Praful Bidwai and Schin Vanaik, and Riding the Nuclear Tiger by N. RamThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Dilemmas at the Border: An Introduction
Afro-Dalits of the Earth, Unite
Un groupe de chercheurs afro-americains et dalit travaille actuellement sur un projet portant sur les similarites dans l'histoire et la vie des peuples africains et dalit. Des chercheurs tels que Ivan van Sertima, Runoko Rashidi, V. T. Rajshekar et d'autres forment ce reseau occulte de recherche et publications afro-dalit. Le Projet afro-dalit cherche a avancer une origine commune pour les Africains et les Dalit dans le but d'appeler a la solidar…
The protean forms of Yankee Hindutva
Movements in the diaspora must perforce settle accounts with the cultural frameworks within which they operate. When the Hindu Right sets off from the shores of South Asia, it has to come to terms with its new location. In the United States, it constitutes a Yankee Hindutva - where it asserts itself in the space allowed by multiculturalism. To delink itself from its shabby heritage in the subcontinent, Yankee Hindutva adopts many, protean, forms …
War against the Planet
The bombing has begun. Kabul is being bombed. So say the television anchors and the newspapers—all in passive voice, all with an air of inevitability.I can hear whispers from my neighbors: finally, it is here, and I hope it goes away soon. We don't want to be burdened by it, for it may force us to make moral choices that are far too uncomfortable. Better to pretend that it is has not happened, or else that its inevitability makes it inconsequenti…
Collective Mastery in Kerala
Community Scholarship
Radical History Review - 2001, Issue 79
The Technology of Sanitation in Colonial Delhi
I. Sewage Under CapitalismThe preservation of the wealth and welfare of nations, and advances in culture and civilisation depend on how the sewage question is resolved.(von Liebig, 1850s).Delhi is a very suggestive and moralising place-such stupendous remains of power and wealth passed and passing away-and somehow I feel that we horrid English have just 'gone and done it', merchandised it, revenue it, and spoiled it all. (Emily Eden, 1838).Veena …
Bruce Lee and the Anti-imperialism of Kung Fu: A Polycultural Adventure
Research Article| February 01 2003 Bruce Lee and the Anti-imperialism of Kung Fu: A Polycultural Adventure Vijay Prashad Vijay Prashad Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2003) 11 (1): 51–90. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-11-1-51 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Vijay Prashad; Bruce Lee and the Anti-imperialism of Kung Fu: A Polycultural Adventur…
Powerlessness Grows Out of the Barrel of a Gun
Research Article| January 01 2003 Powerlessness Grows Out of the Barrel of a Gun Vijay Prashad Vijay Prashad Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (85): 124–132. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2003-85-124 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Vijay Prashad; Powerlessness Grows Out of the Barrel of a Gun. Radical History Review 1 January 2003; 2003 (85): 1…
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