Description
Poverty, racism and sexism are rife within the US, but, in truth, the conditions for major social change are not yet in evidence. This short book of three essays offers an assessment of the contradictions of US life, of the attempts by its economic and political managers to stabilize their dominance (by incarceration, mainly), and of the few social agents at work to transform what Mao called a “paper tiger.” The paper tiger continues to growl—this is the subject of Vijay Prashad’s short book of essays.
CONTENTS
Introduction
- Keeping Up With the Dow Joneses
- Criminality and the Reserve Army of Labor
- The New Millennium Freedom Riders: Welfare Reform Faces the Grassroots
Cover picture: Invading New Markets, cartoon by Andy Singer.
Vijay Prashad
Dr. Vijay Prashad is Associate Professor and Director of International Studies, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. He is the author of five books: Untouchable Freedom: A Social History of a Dalit Community (Oxford, 1999); Karma of Brown Folk (Minnesota, 2000; chosen as one of the 25 books of the year by the Village Voice); Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity (Beacon, 2001; chosen as one of the 25 best books of the year by the Village Voice); War Against the Planet: The Fifth Afghan War, US Imperialism and Other Assorted Fundamentalisms (Leftword, 2002); Fat Cats and Running Dogs: The Enron Stage of Capitalism (Common Courage, Leftword and Zed Books, 2002)
