Amardeep Singh

"Just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else." --Toni Morrison

Luther Vandross



R&B singer Luther Vandross is dead.
Posted by Amardeep Singh at July 02, 2005
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My book, Diaspora Vérité: The Films of Mira Nair, published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2018, is available on Amazon.

I have been working on several digital projects in Scalar. Here are a few of them:

African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology

Adivasi Writers: an Introduction to India's Indigenous Literature

The Kiplings and India.

Claude McKay's Early Poetry (1912-1922)

Toni Morrison: a Teaching and Learning Resource Collection

Collected Poems of Henry Louis Vivian Derozio

Women of the Early Harlem Renaissance (1900-1922)

Asian American Little Magazines, 1968-1974.

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