Opposition and Challenges : B.R. Ambedkar and Malcolm X

Chakrabarty, Bidyut

Routledge（2026/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 202 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781041010456
• DDC分類 305.8009

Full Description

Presenting a unique East meets West subaltern history of the twentieth century, this book juxtaposes the political lives and ideas of B. R. Ambedkar and Malcolm X, homing in on their respective struggles against caste and racial discrimination. Despite the differences in their backgrounds, the two thinkeractivists had significantly overlapping worldviews, shaped by their experiences of identity-based oppression, marginalization, and institutional violence. This book explores those overlaps, with a view to analysing how Ambedkar and Malcolm X's legacies live on in civil rights movements and discourse the world over.

The volume will be of interest to researchers and scholars of race, caste and discrimination studies, history, African-American studies and South Asian studies.

Contents

Preface viii

Introduction 1

1 Critique of exploitation: Intellectual roots 12

2 Two rebels in two hemispheres 49

3 Conversion as a mode of protest 86

4 Lonely fighters with contrarian views and defiant practices 116

5 In the struggle for dignity - redesigning humanism 149

Conclusion 182

Bibliography 194

Index 199