India

Wed 3.25.09| Diaspora's Creation

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Minal Hajratwala, Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents Houghton Mifflin, 2009

It's not just a story about the Indian diaspora. It's about empire, about the movement of labor, about the use and abuse of race, about global historical forces that created expatriate communities in far-flung places. Minal Hajratwala explains how and why her extended family moved to and settled in nine different countries.

Tues 11.11.08| Crisis, Response

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P. Sainath's lecture at U.C. Berkeley

No on 46

Why are more than ten thousand farmers in India committing suicide each year? Among the reasons, asserts the award-winning journalist P. Sainath, is neoliberal globalization. Also, Melissa Hart discusses the rejection by Colorado voters of a Ward Connerly-backed anti-affirmative action ballot initiative.

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