Third World Studies

Praise for the First Edition
“A bracing account of the phantom Third World studies, the field that never was. Gary Y. Okihiro has had his feet planted firmly in the fields of ethnic studies and global studies, two fields that would have been part of Third World studies, making him well positioned to write this book.” - Vijay Prashad, author of The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South

Praise for the First Edition
“Okihiro makes an exciting and innovative contribution to the scholarship on Third World studies. . . . [This book] will make excellent reading for anyone interested in the interplay between politics and framing of subjectivities and would be particularly useful for undergraduate and graduate courses on postcolonial studies, critical pedagogy, and international politics.” - Ananya Sharma,, Postcolonial Studies

“Gary Y. Okihiro’s Third World Studies remains an extraordinarily important contribution. It is the single most effective critique of racial capitalism’s entanglement with multicultural liberalism, remarkably showing readers how Third World studies offers a distinct challenge and radically different way of viewing human history and society. This book is indispensable.” - Penny M. Von Eschen, author of Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989

"This second edition summarizes Okihiro's 'intellectual labors.' It is also a tribute to a first-generation ethnic studies scholar (notwithstanding his misgiving about labeling the field thus) who helped found, define, and redefine the field to break out of parochial identity politics and focus on relationships of power, domination, and liberation. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals." - E. Hu-DeHart, Choice