There are about 2.5 million people of Indian descent living in the United States today. While India’s rich food and dance are celebrated in America, the caste system which Indian emigrants came from ...
Caste shapes every aspect of Indian culture and culture. As Dalit American activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan writes in The Trauma of Caste, this “system of exclusion…ranks people at birth affects over ...
David Brooks’ call for disrupting the caste system (“Reforms need to overcome the new segregation” Las Vegas Sun, Aug. 22) will be even more difficult after the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill ...
Filmmaker Somnath Waghmare discusses his documentary ‘Gail and Bharat’, which explores the life of Gail Omvedt—an American-born scholar who dedicated her life to India's anti-caste movement. The film ...
How America built a caste system that protects wealth by weaponizing color.
To the Editor: Throughout history, no matter the type of economic or political arrangements, human greed has usually tried to game the system for creating and distributing wealth. Thus, people got ...
Every day we hear loud, urgent calls to address the problem of systemic racism in America. While we can all agree that racism continues to plague our nation, we may wonder what we can do to rid ...
The Origins of Our Discontents offers one of the most compelling reframings of inequality in recent public discourse. Rather than treating racism as a matter of prejudice or individual belief, ...
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