that some of his fellow Hindus were unconvinced that the caste system needed to be addressed at all. Shanmugam is among those American Hindus who believe that the Indian diaspora has grown to the ...

The fifth pillar of caste, according to Isabel Wilkerson, author of “Caste: The Origins of our Discontents” is the division of labour based on one’s place in the hierarchy.

"Casta" is Spanish for caste and these "casta paintings" are incredibly frank documents--unparalleled by anything in our time--of the race-based social hierarchy that existed in colonial Latin America ...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s holiday has passed, and we are heading into Black History Month, making this a good moment to ...

Scholars of caste—India’s longstanding, religiously-based system of social hierarchy—will gather at Brandeis to open the third annual conference on social exclusion in South Asia on Friday, April 28.

The list includes Harvard, Brown, the University of Minnesota, Brandeis and the entire California State University system ... As caste has become a bigger and bigger issue in many American ...

which deems Nazism and American racism — alongside India’s own rigid caste system — as the caste systems that have “stood out” the most “throughout human history.” And “Origin ...