This book compares the historical struggles of two geographically disparate populations - Indian Dalits and African Americans - to examine prejudice in two leading democracies.

1. Introduction; 2. Prejudice as difference; 3. Dalit conversion: the assertion of sameness; 4. Double V: the everyday of race relations; 5. An African-American autobiography: re-locating difference; 6. Dalit memoirs: re-scripting the body; 7. The persistence of prejudice.

Gyanendra Pandey is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History and Director of the Interdisciplinary Workshop in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at Emory University. His books include Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India (2001) and Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories (2006).