Vijay Prashad

Trinity College

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Professor of International Studies at Trinity College in Connecticut, and author of 11 books, including Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today

Vijay Prashad on KCRW

Since they first arrived in the US more than 100 years ago, Sikhs have experienced brutal discrimination.

Hate, Terrorism, and America's Religious Pluralism

Since they first arrived in the US more than 100 years ago, Sikhs have experienced brutal discrimination.

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America's latest mass killing took the lives of seven people, including the gunman, who shot up a Sikh house of worship in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

Personal Rage, Hostility and Deadly Gunfire

America's latest mass killing took the lives of seven people, including the gunman, who shot up a Sikh house of worship in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

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