It is in this spirit that the institution seeks to effectively address the concept of caste and its corresponding identity-based lived experience within our policy on nondiscrimination. For the ...

Caste systems encourage endogamy, which means you always marry within your class to maintain society’s hierarchy long-term. In short, it’s privilege largely determined by birth.

B-27 defines caste as “a system of rigid social stratification characterized by hereditary status, endogamy, and social barriers sanctioned by custom, law, or religion” and caste ...

What is caste? India’s caste system has roots in Hindu scriptures, and historically sorted the population into a hierarchy that defined people’s occupations, where they can live and who they ...

A bill now pending in the California State Senate would amend that state’s anti-discrimination law to outlaw discrimination based upon a person's caste. The proposed law defines caste as “a ...

Caste is “a system of rigid social stratification characterized by hereditary status, endogamy, and social barriers sanctioned by custom, law, or religion,” according to the legislation.

Isabel Wilkerson's new book, "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents," reframes race in terms of a structural organizing principle, Douglas writes.

California lawmakers have cleared a bill that would explicitly ban caste discrimination in the state, sending it to the governor’s desk for signature.. State senators passed a bill on Tuesday ...

Forest Whitaker is physically conspicuous and, most people would say, famous. In “Caste,” Isabel Wilkerson narrates how the Oscar-winning actor, “a distinguished, middle-aged, African ...

As an institution of higher education founded on the principles of equitable access and inclusion, Brandeis University celebrates the diversity of its faculty, staff, students and alumni. It is in ...