Subaltern Citizens and their Histories: Investigations from India and the USA

Book Cover
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Contents
Notes on contributors
Preface and acknowledgments
1 Introduction: The subaltern as subaltern citizen
Part I Equal but separate?
	2 Can there be a subaltern middle class?
	3 Race, power, and multipositionality: Examples from the lives of black schoolteachers
	4 Recasting the women’s question: The ‘girl-child/woman’ in the colonial encounter
	5 Casual sex: Subaltern sexuality ‘on the road’ in early twentieth-century America
Part II Writing the subaltern
	6 The question of a prehistory
	7 Writing ordinary lives
	8 Subaltern city, subaltern citizens: New Orleans, urban identity, and people of African descent
	9 Culture/politics: The curious double-bind of the Indian adivasi
Part III The state and the people
	10 Subordination, governance, and the legislative state in early colonial India
	11 Subaltern immigrants: Undocumented workers and national belonging in the United States
	12 Could slaves enfranchise themselves?: Rumours, narratives, and arenas of politics in the American South
	13 Democracy and subaltern-citizens in India
Part IV Afterword
	14 Afterword
Index