May 12, 2000

Verbatim

By PETER MONAGHAN

The Karma of Brown Folk by Vijay Prashad (University of Minnesota Press)

The karma of "brown folk" -- of Americans of South Asian descent and of South Asians in America -- is to face the question "How does it feel to be a solution?" So writes Vijay Prashad, an assistant professor of international studies at Trinity College, in Connecticut. His title alludes to the 1903 classic by W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, which asked black Americans, "How does it feel to be a problem?"

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