Shobana Shankar, "An Uneasy Embrace: Africa, India and the Spectre of Race" (Oxford UP, 2021)
New Books in African Studies
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Amans - Is There a Common Thread Throughout Your Work?
Amans: A common thread throughout is the varying uses and presentations of this past, as well as the difficulty to present what is a complicated and at times contradictory history. For example, when new york public library exhibit called africans in india was brought to new deli in two thousand 14, you note that for some indian viewers it should have reaffirmed their own sense of superiority. Others viewed it as a kind of call to address racism against africans and marginalized indians. Amans: Public history has a unique ability to kind of to generate those kinds of conversations. But i think public history is also especially well done. It's across these international spaces to be
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