He has written more than 20 books, including “The Darker Nations” and “The Poorer Nations.” He is a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China. He is the chief editor of LeftWord Books and the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, editor, and journalist. Vijay Prashad, on the new edition of his book, ‘The Rise of ‘The Darker Nations’ in the 21 st Century: Responses to Crises of War, Poverty, and Environmental Disaster’ The Darker Nations restores to memory the vibrant though flawed idea of the Third World, whose demise, Prashad ultimately argues, has produced a much impoverished international political arena.The Socialist Education Project of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS) presents its 4 th Monday Webinar with:
A breakthrough book of cutting-edge scholarship, it includes vivid portraits of Third World giants like Jawaharlal Nehru, Egypt's Nasser, and Indonesia's Sukarno-as well as scores of extraordinary but now-forgotten intellectuals, artists, and freedom fighters.
Traversing continents, Vijay Prashad's fascinating narrative takes us from the birth of postcolonial nations after World War II to the downfall and corruption of nationalist regimes. The Darker Nations traces the intellectual origins and the political history of the attempt to knit together the world's impoverished countries in opposition to the United States and Soviet spheres of influence in the decades following World War II, as nation after nation across Asia, Africa and South America gained political independence from colonial rule. " This book is a paradigm-shifting history of both a utopian concept and global movement-the idea of the Third World. "The Third World was not a place," argues Vijay Prashad.
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