His most recent book is 'Washington Bullets' (LeftWord, 2020), with a preface by Evo Morales. In 2013, Verso published his 'The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South.' He is author of 'No Free Left: The Futures of Indian Communism' (LeftWord Books, 2015) and the editor of 'Letters to Palestine' (Verso Books, 2015), a book that includes the writings of Teju Cole, Sinan Antoon, Noura Erakat, and Junot Diaz. His book 'The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World' (2007) was chosen as the Best Nonfiction book by the Asian American Writers' Workshop in 2008 and it won the Muzaffar Ahmed Book Award in 2009. In 2012, he published five books, including 'Arab Spring, Libyan Winter' (AK Press) and 'Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today' (The New Press). In 2013–2014, he was the Edward Said Chair at the American University of Beirut and has been a Senior Fellow of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs in Beirut. He was the George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and a professor of international studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, United States from 1996 to 2017. He is an executive-director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and the Chief Editor of LeftWord Books. Prashad impressively shows how culture and community are intrinsically tied to politics, while addressing nuances in a culture often marginalized by the media.Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, journalist, commentator, and Marxist intellectual. In addition, he traces the rise of South Asian political activism from WWI through the 9/11 attacks that pressured South Asians to unite across disparate cultural and religious lines.

To rectify the misinformation, Prashad explains how immigration policy and labor laws shaped South Asian culture, from the prolific rise of the Patels in the hotel industry to indentured servitude in post-Katrina New Orleans.

Random screenings on mass transit, mistaken detainment, and deportation are among the trials this population faced under legislation like the Patriot Act.

As Trinity College’s South Asian history professor Prashad (The Karma of Brown Folk) writes, for South Asian–Americans, “the miasma of international relations interrupts our lives constantly.” His latest begins by illustrating the ways in which Islamophobia and hate crimes ran rife against South Asians after 9/11-tensions exacerbated by outsourced jobs and the growing unemployment rate.

Uncle Swami by Vijay Prashad