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In Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines the laws and practices that created a bipolar caste system in the U.S. — and how the Nazis borrowed from it.
America’s Caste System Is 400 Years Old. That Doesn’t Change Overnight. Isabel Wilkerson on why a new presidency alone can’t fix America’s 400-year-old race-based hierarchy.
The Burns Halperin Report Caste in Stone: Why Classifying Artists by Race Is Not Just a ‘Social Construct’ Artist Adrian Piper considers why evaluating art collections in terms of racial ...
The caste system is a ‘unifying factor’ of Indian society, which the Mughals couldn’t understand and the British saw as a roadblock to their invasion of the country, the latest issue of the ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Nearly 18 months after the first of six guilty verdicts, the federal government has made good on its pledge to move some of California’s allegedly most dangerous ...
“America is the “land of opportunity” precisely because we DON’T have a caste system,” the Republican politician wrote on the microblogging platform. “We cannot sustain America’s ...
I come from a Dalit background and I research Dalit representation in film. So I know first hand Origin’s importance to Dalit people.
“In the caste system, equality doesn’t exist. That is why the Church’s commitment to overcome the caste system is not accepted. For us the person is sacred,” Cardinal Toppo said.
In her new book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Wilkerson says that acknowledging America's caste system deepens our understanding of what Black people are up against in the United States.