What awaits the U.S. when the coronavirus is contained? Will America’s great ideological glue – the belief in social mobility – be finally exposed as a caste system? Caste is a very old Indian ...

Who gets to imagine the future? Who gets to belong in it? Will those answers ever change? Two collection explore future ...

To a 21st-century reader, Rajani (1877) by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, at first, comes across as a novel on caste and flowers. Rajani, a “low-born”, blind girl of 19, makes a living by selling ...

Payal Tadvi was a 26-year-old postgraduate medical student at Mumbai’s BYL Nair Hospital who allegedly died by suicide in May 2019 following severe caste-based harassment by three senior doctors For ...

If the construction of the “model minority” myth for Indian Americans rides on the back of their alleged casteless-ness, then their anti-Blackness, or at least a deliberate effort to separate ...

Since Bill Clinton, Democratic identity politics has challenged racial and gender caste power while focusing far less on class power. Harris needs to recapture the spirit of the New Deal, when ...

A caste is a ranking, an order, a top to bottom accounting. The concept of caste — not unlike class, though different in important ways — is thousands of years old, its roots can be inextricable, its ...

What is caste and caste discrimination? “Caste” or a “caste system” is a social hierarchy passed down through families and can dictate an individual’s permissible professions as well as aspects of ...

Three-quarters of the way into Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson describes the humiliation suffered by Black passengers on a steamship in the American South before the Civil War.

CHENNAI, India — Chezi K. Ganesan looks every inch the high-tech entrepreneur, dressed in the Silicon Valley uniform of denim shirt and khaki trousers, slick smartphone close at hand. He splits his ...