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Oliver Cromwell Cox, a Marxist economist and author of Caste, Class, and Race (1948), strongly rejected the notion of caste to define American race relations.
Siddhant Chaturvedi and Triptii Dimri's Dhadak 2 is in theatres. It follows a lower-caste boy’s struggles as he falls in love with an upper-class woman.
Today, August 2, marks the birth anniversary of Indian sociologist, writer, activist, and prominent intellectual of the ...
Siddhant Chaturvedi, Triptii Dimri's Dhadak 2 is a compelling, emotionally rich film that elevates the template of a love ...
The city of Seattle became the first U.S. jurisdiction to include caste as a protected class in ordinance CB12051, “An Ordinance Relating to Human Rights; Including Protections Against ...
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 ...
Class is, in fact, part of how the Indian caste system was founded: a hierarchy that constrained both societal privilege and occupation by rank of birth. Divorcing class from caste in “Origin” is not ...
Jeffrey Brown: In 1959, Martin Luther King Jr., visiting India and seeing its caste system, realized he was a kind of untouchable in his own land. It's one of many stories told in the new book ...
The recent killing of C. Kavin Selvaganesh, a Scheduled Caste youth, just because he was in love with a girl of an intermediate caste, has again spotlighted rampant caste pride in southern Tamil Nadu.
On March 12, 2025, the Ninth Circuit issued its decision in Kumar v. Koester, dismissing a constitutional challenge to a university’s anti-discrimination policy that added “caste” as a ...
V S Achuthanandan, a staunch Marxist known for his sharp rhetoric, anti-corruption stance, and unwavering commitment to ...
The Bhils, one of the biggest Adivasi tribes in India, consider themselves direct descendants of Lord Shiva and his wife, ...