The piece by Tunku Varadarajan on Usha Chilukuri Vance in Wall Street Journal is one of the most ideologically driven pieces about Indian Americans!! I don’t have much to say about Usha Vance but this moment is producing all kinds insidious narratives about Indian Americans. 1/1

Abusable Past is putting together a forum of reflections, class plans, and other pedagogical material that have emerged from the solidarity encampments of the past year. Deadline is today, but if you have something that still needs work, send an abstract or pitch ASAP!

we could see Lieutenant governor Peggy Flanagan become the first Native woman to hold the office of governor in the history of the USA 🇺🇸 #TimWalz

I don't usually trust politicians, but Walz is for trans rights and can fix your transmission.

Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, who would become the first Indigenous woman governor in US history

Great piece by Sandhya Shukla on Vito Marcantonio’s anti-racist, anti-fascist, and anti-colonial politics and what it can teach us seventy years after his death. abusablepast.org/congressman-vi…

This is so so so necessary! Read it now!

So excited to share this microsyllabus from Jecca Namakkal on South Asian America in light of how the 2024 Presidential race has put both Usha Chilukuri Vance and Kamala Harris in the spotlight. The microsyllabus focuses on questions of immigration, race, gender, class, and caste.

Jecca Namakkal Jecca Namakkal has put together this excellent micro syllabus on South Asian Americans in the context of 2024 elections!! abusablepast.org/south-asian-am…

My take on a new translation of a book on Dalit cooking from Marathwada, India It will be in three parts. This is the first one. Thanks to Prof. Vandana Swamy and Prof. Ishita Dey in helping me navigate the related literature foodanthro.com/2024/08/26/rev…