Episode 116 – Africa, India, and the Making of Race with Shobana Shankar

Shobana Shankar discusses her book, An Uneasy Embrace: Africa, India and the Spectre of Race. Prof. Shankar explains how Africans and Indians make and unmake their differences. While decolonization brought Africans and Indians together to challenge Euro-American style white supremacy, discord over caste, religion, sex and skin color simmered beneath the rhetoric of Afro-Asian solidarity. […]