Colored Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India

Indians in the U.S. are often held up as model minorities (in rotation with Koreans and Chinese) and are offered as an example to African Americans of the rewards of hard work, family values, and the unquestionable fairness of American society. By following Gandhi, for example, as he appears to make hypocritical statements about the importance of race and caste, Slate shows an activist coming to a more mature understanding as he corresponds with Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Cedric Drover, and a number of other African American and Indian activists.