Despite being inextricably linked to Indian tradition, the modern understanding and usage of the word “caste” came through ...

Caste, Wilkerson says, is the system that creates subjugation. What Wilkerson refers to in her book as “the false god of race” was invented by slave-owning European colonists as a convenient ...

Dallas Stribley / Getty Images A caste system segregates people into fixed social groups based on discriminatory notions of purity and contamination. People are placed into fixed social groups in ...