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Looks at the wave of emancipation processes that took place across the Atlantic world between the 1770s and 1880s and how they continued to stoke racial violence against Black communities and reaffirm white supremacy.
About the author
Kris Manjapra was born in the Caribbean of mixed African and Indian parentage. He grew up in Canada and completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Harvard. He has lived in the USA ever since. He is a professor of history at Tufts University, and a recipient of the 2015 Emerging Scholar Award by
Diverse magazine. He has held fellowships at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study, at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and at UCLA. The author of
Black Ghost of Empire, he has also written
Colonialism in Global Perspective,
Age of Entanglement: German and Indian Intellectuals Across Empire,
M.N. Roy: Cosmopolitanism and Colonial Marxism, and
Cosmopolitan Thought Zones of South Asia.
