Pinpoints the limits of many current globalization theories in challenging racial oppression, and argues instead for local and situated strategies for resisting racism and imperialism.

Malini Johar Schueller is Professor of English at the University of Florida and the author of The Politics of Voice: Liberalism and Social Criticism from Franklin to Kingston, also published by SUNY Press, and U.S. Orientalisms: Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature, 1790-1890.