| 单词 | caste |
| 例句 | The new racial caste system operates unimpeded by the Fourteenth Amendment and federal civil rights legislation—laws designed to topple earlier systems of control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z With each reincarnation of racial caste, the new system, as sociologist Loïc Wacquant puts it, “is less total, less capable of encompassing and controlling the entire race.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But it is understandable why some blacks believed their immediate safety and security could best be protected by cooperation with the prevailing caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Indeed, if Barack Obama had been elected president back then, I would have argued that his election marked the nation’s triumph over racial caste—the final nail in the coffin of Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Others may wonder how a racial caste system could exist when most Americans—of all colors—oppose race discrimination and endorse colorblindness. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Conferences, strategy sessions, and debates regarding how best to build a movement to dismantle the new caste system would be occurring on a regular basis. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z For me, the new caste system is now as obvious as my own face in the mirror. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The genius of the current caste system, and what most distinguishes it from its predecessors, is that it appears voluntary. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Highly visible examples of black success are critical to the maintenance of a racial caste system in the era of colorblindness. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Any wonder, then, that many youth embrace their stigmatized identity as a means of survival in this new caste system? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The process of marking black youth as black criminals is essential to the functioning of mass incarceration as a racial caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When we pull back the curtain and take a look at what our so-called colorblind society creates without affirmative action, we see a familiar social, political, and economic structure—the structure of racial caste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A short time later they were rescued by the flour Aurelianos, whose crosses of ash inspired a sacred respect, as if they were caste marks, stamps of invulnerability. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z As we shall see, there is a certain pattern to the births and deaths of racial caste in America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Time and again, the most ardent proponents of racial hierarchy have succeeded in creating new caste systems by triggering a collapse of resistance across the political spectrum. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Outside the house, past the line of grim guards, reporters and photographers waited according to the tradition of the caste. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z I don't know a whole lot about castes and subcastes, but whatever the topmost one is, she looks like she could belong to it. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z What is most striking about the design of the current caste system, though, is how closely it resembles its predecessor. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z We have allowed ourselves to be willfully blind to the emergence of a new caste system—a system of social excommunication that has denied millions of African Americans basic human dignity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z "It's like that everywhere in the world. In India, people assume that if you have dark skin, you're from a lower caste. Here, it's the same—black people are the lowest caste in this country." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The caste system will reemerge in a new form, just as convict leasing replaced slavery, or it will be reborn, just as mass incarceration replaced Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Gains can be made, yes, but the new caste system will not be overthrown by isolated victories in legislatures or courtrooms. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z An “interracial racial caste system” may seem like an oxymoron. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The standard reply is: “How can you say that a racial caste system exists today? Just look at Barack Obama! Just look at Oprah Winfrey!” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z No task is more urgent for racial justice advocates today than ensuring that America’s current racial caste system is its last. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z We must face the realities of the new caste system and embrace those who are most oppressed by it if we hope to end the new Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Ten years ago, I would have argued strenuously against the central claim made here—namely, that something akin to a racial caste system currently exists in the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In other words, affirmative action helps to make the emergence of a new racial caste system seem implausible. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z What kind of racial caste system includes white people within its control? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They were ashamed, she told me, ashamed and angry with her for eloping with someone from an even lower caste than the one she’d been born into. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The system operates through our criminal justice institutions, but it functions more like a caste system than a system of crime control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Historians will likely wonder how we could describe the new caste system as a system of crime control, when it is difficult to imagine a system better designed to create—rather than prevent—crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z What is remarkable is that hardly anyone seems to imagine that similar political dynamics may have produced another caste system in the years following the collapse of Jim Crow—one that exists today. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The reality is that, just a few decades after the collapse of one caste system, we constructed another. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Seldom was there a greater struggle for supremacy than among sisters and brothers who knew all the subtleties of caste. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The aim of this book is not to venture into the long-running, vigorous debate in the scholarly literature regarding what does and does not constitute a caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Many African Americans today believe that uplift ideology worked in the past and ought to work again—forgetting that ultimately it took a major movement to end the last caste system, not simply good behavior. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Since the days of slavery, black men have been depicted and understood as criminals, and their criminal “nature” has been among the justifications for every caste system to date. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I first encountered the idea of a new racial caste system more than a decade ago, when a bright orange poster caught my eye. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The language of caste may well seem foreign or unfamiliar to some. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Chapter 4 considers how the caste system operates once people are released from prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The story of the political and economic underpinnings of the nation’s founding sheds some light on these recurring themes in our history and the reasons new racial caste systems continue to be born. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z "Not sure which low caste I even belong to." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Prior drug wars were ancillary to the prevailing caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The notion that black people have always been united in opposition to American caste systems is sheer myth. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z We have created a new caste system that forces thousands of people into homelessness, bans them from living with their families and in their communities, and renders them virtually unemployable. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z These principles are rooted in an understanding that any movement to end mass incarceration must deal with mass incarceration as a racial caste system, not as a system of crime control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z We now turn to another important difference between mass incarceration and Jim Crow: the direct harm to whites caused by the current caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z We have become blind, not so much to race, but to the existence of racial caste in America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Certainly. I would do the same again. Her mother was my friend. I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty—to one’s friends and one’s family and one’s caste.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z And at the same time the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z This pattern, dating back to slavery, has birthed yet another racial caste system in the United States: mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Proponents of racial hierarchy found they could install a new racial caste system without violating the law or the new limits of acceptable political discourse by demanding “law and order” rather than “segregation forever.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The notion that all racial caste systems are necessarily predicated on a desire to harm other racial groups, and that racial hostility is the essence of racism, is fundamentally misguided. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But let flesh touch with flesh, and watch the fall of all the eggshell shibboleth of caste and color too. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z Public discussions about racial caste in America are relatively rare. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The new caste system labels black and brown men as criminals early, often in their teens, making them “damaged goods” from the perspective of traditional civil rights advocates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z We avoid talking about caste in our society because we are ashamed of our racial history. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z After Independence they found they were not entitled to any government benefits like job reservations or bank loans at low interest rates, because officially, on paper, they were Christians, and therefore caste- less. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z "Why do you care about his religion? Or their caste?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z They were also demanding that Untouchables no longer be addressed by their caste names. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I had no choice, since she and Ruth May and I were thrown together by caste, set apart from Leah the Huntress. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, this chapter responds to skeptics who claim that mass incarceration cannot be understood as a racial caste system because many “get tough on crime” policies are supported by African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z All racial caste systems, not just mass incarceration, have been supported by racial indifference. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Racial animus is a predictable and recurring feature of racial caste systems, but it is not necessary for the system to function if there is widespread racial indifference. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Today, no less than fifty years ago, a flawed public consensus lies at the core of the prevailing caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Now he had one, a pretty one, from a suitably high caste, who would soon have a master’s degree. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z In ghetto communities, nearly everyone is either directly or indirectly subject to the new caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z How could a caste system exist, in view of the black middle class? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z "We're not in Bengal anymore. There's no caste system in America. The Declaration of Independence made it clear: 'All men are created equal.' And we'll be changing 'men' to 'people' soon." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Far from resisting the emergence of the new caste system, Clinton escalated the drug war beyond what conservatives had imagined possible a decade earlier. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The fact that some African Americans have experienced great success in recent years does not mean that something akin to a racial caste system no longer exists. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The significance of this cannot be overstated, for the failure to acknowledge the humanity and dignity of all persons has lurked at the root of every racial caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The answer: a racial caste system in the age of colorblindness. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Civil rights advocates have organized vigorous challenges to specific aspects of the new caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The prevailing caste system cannot be successfully dismantled with a purely race-neutral approach. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Sunshine gave way to darkness, and the Jim Crow system of segregation emerged—a system that put black people nearly back where they began, in a subordinate racial caste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Nor have we been entirely ignorant of the realities of the new caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Only after years of working on criminal justice reform did my own focus finally shift, and then the rigid caste system slowly came into view. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This book argues that mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow and that all those who care about social justice should fully commit themselves to dismantling this new racial caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Its caste system was, to him, the just rule of a perfect world. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The history of racial caste in the United States would end with the Civil War if the idea of race and racial difference had died when the institution of slavery was put to rest. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Was there anything about India’s environment predisposing toward rigid socioeconomic castes, with grave consequences for the development of technology in India? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even slavery does not conform to this limited understanding of racism and racial caste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Indeed, a primary function of any racial caste system is to define the meaning of race in its time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They were all stuck in a caste system as hard and unyielding as the red Georgia clay, and they each had a decision before them. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A caste of military men arose to fill key posts. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The story that is told during Black History Month is one of triumph; the system of racial caste is officially dead and buried. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The truth, however, is this: far from undermining the current system of control, the new caste system depends, in no small part, on black exceptionalism. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The superlative nature of individual black achievement today in formerly white domains is a good indicator that the old Jim Crow is dead, but it does not necessarily mean the end of racial caste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Widespread preoccupation with litigation, however, is not the only—or even the main—reason civil rights groups have shied away from challenging the new caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z For some, the characterization of mass incarceration as a “racial caste system” may seem like a gross exaggeration, if not hyperbole. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This book focuses on the experience of African American men in the new caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The most ardent proponents of racial hierarchy have consistently succeeded in implementing new racial caste systems by triggering a collapse of resistance across the political spectrum. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Because mass incarceration is officially colorblind, it seems inconceivable that the system could function much like a racial caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z No task is more urgent for racial justice advocates today than ensuring that America’s current racial caste system is its last. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z That said, no effort is made here to describe, in any detail, what should or should not be done in the months and years ahead to challenge the new caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Others told tales of returning only to be spurned by their villages for having broken caste or to be preyed upon by relatives who stole their money. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The colorblind public consensus that supports the new caste system insists that race no longer matters. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But a person who crossed the black water lost all caste; he was stripped of the connections that had defined him and his family for generations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Besides, you are not of the caste of tanners. What will our relations say?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z In Du Bois’s view, Washington’s public statements arguing that poor education and bad choices were responsible for the plight of former slaves ignored the damage wrought by caste and threatened to rationalize the entire system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Such a movement is impossible, though, if those most committed to abolishing racial hierarchy continue to talk and behave as if a state-sponsored racial caste system no longer exists. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I had quieted the hounds of caste warfare. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Few Americans today recognize mass incarceration for what it is: a new caste system thinly veiled by the cloak of colorblindness. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Every racial caste system in the United States has produced racial stigma. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The institution of a legal, government-sanctioned racial caste system was overturned in 1994 with the first democratic elections, but its effects still haunted the country. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The impact of the new caste system is most tragically felt among the young. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Sadly, like the racial caste systems that preceded it, the system of mass incarceration now seems normal and natural to most, a regrettable necessity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z To have dealings with members of the lower castes was always, for Bernard, a most distressing experience. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Wacquant has written extensively about the cyclical nature of racial caste in America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The South was solidly Democratic, embittered by the war, firmly committed to the maintenance of a racial caste system, and extremely hostile to federal intervention on behalf of African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Many will wonder how a nation that just elected its first black president could possibly have a racial caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z By the mid-1770s, the system of bond labor had been thoroughly transformed into a racial caste system predicated on slavery. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Many of the forms of discrimination that relegated African Americans to an inferior caste during Jim Crow continue to apply to huge segments of the black population today—provided they are first labeled felons. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Being Tina's first boyfriend kept Park out of the lowest neighborhood caste. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z No caste system in the United States has ever governed all black people; there have always been “free blacks” and black success stories, even during slavery and Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Contact with members of the lower castes always reminded him painfully of this physical inade-quacy. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Racial indifference and blindness—even more than overt racial hostility—form the sturdy foundation for all racial caste systems. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The criminalization and demonization of black men is one habit America seems unlikely to break without addressing head-on the racial dynamics that have given rise to successive caste systems. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Never did I seriously consider the possibility that a new racial caste system was operating in this country. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Meaningful reforms can be achieved without such a movement, but unless the public consensus supporting the current system is completely overturned, the basic structure of the new caste system will remain intact. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When he was given the opportunity to study law in England, he faced the same problem as the indentured sugar workers: He would lose caste if he crossed the black water. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z A facially race-neutral system of laws has operated to create a racial caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Outside the gates, the caste rules were clear. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The reasons and justifications change over time, as each new caste system reflects and adapts to changes in the social, political, and economic context. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Each person was born into a “caste”—a role in society. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z North Korea called itself the Worker’s Paradise, but even as it professed allegiance to communist ideals of equality, it invented one of the world’s most rigidly stratified caste systems. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z What is most concerning about the new racial caste system, however, is that it may prove to be more durable than its predecessors. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In the absence of a massive, grassroots movement directly challenging the racial caste system, Jim Crow might be alive and well today. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I use the term racial caste in this book the way it is used in common parlance to denote a stigmatized racial group locked into an inferior position by law and custom. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Yet as we shall see in the pages that follow, racial caste systems do not require racial hostility or overt bigotry to thrive. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Viewed from this perspective, the so-called underclass is better understood as an undercaste—a lower caste of individuals who are permanently barred by law and custom from mainstream society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I argue that nothing short of a major social movement can successfully dismantle the new caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Shin was nine years old when the North Korean caste system knocked him on the head. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z If something akin to a racial caste system truly exists, why has the civil rights community been so slow to acknowledge it? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This development enhanced their ability to wage legal battles but impeded their ability to acknowledge or respond to the emergence of a new caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “The lower the caste,” said Mr. Foster, “the shorter the oxygen.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Foreigners who traveled to the United States often experienced the caste system firsthand. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z We may improve some school districts, prolong affirmative action for another decade or two, or force some police departments to condemn racial profiling, but we will not put a dent in the prevailing caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “We have to make sure everybody understands that there are systems of oppression and erasure and caste in place, where if you’re born in a system, you stay in that system,” he said. Comedy Undercut ‘The Life.’ Billy Porter Looks for Its Humanity. 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z There, she walked from village to village convening "talking circles" to quell caste riots. Gloria Steinem revs up memories and travels in 'My Life On the Road' memoir 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Tris, the film’s heroine, soon discovers that she’s that rarest of birds: a citizen who doesn’t fit neatly into any of the five castes. ‘Divergent’ Adapters Face a Delicate Balancing Act 2014-03-19T17:52:24Z An ethnic caste system means that some workers are even more mistreated than others. 5 of the most horrific revelations about New York City’s nail salons 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z It is easy, or tempting, to see Mailer as prescient, since his description is of a recognizable Trump-era caste. The Strange Prophecies in Norman Mailer’s “The Armies of the Night” 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z The protagonists of the slender French feature are a group of fugitives from a painted world in which people are divided by aesthetic caste. ‘The Painting’ comes alive with caste-driven animation 2013-06-27T21:03:32Z In her melodic, richly imagined novel, Forbes uses the discovery of an abandoned Jamaican baby — born with skin that defies color or caste — to examine issues of race, colonialism, heritage and love. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Because of the filters of caste, class and a fiercely competitive education system, only those with above average financial and human capital get the chance to move to America. How Indians triumphed in America 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z And we do need to face up to them if we are to bring the hopes for racial justice echoing in our streets closer to reality — and advance the hard work of annihilating caste. What Do America’s Racial Problems Have in Common With India and Nazi Germany? 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Rather than witness the redefinition of whiteness, from Anglo-American to Euro-American to Euro-Latino-Asian American, I would rather live to see a truly post-racist America in which caste is completely expunged from culture and consciousness. Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t say the N-word 2012-06-05T15:45:00Z The film’s subversive commentary on casual cruelty and the misogynistic power dynamics that drive the high school caste system provide an abundance of opportunities for discussion. We need to talk about “13 Reasons Why”: The timeless case for getting into uncomfortable conversations about teen crises as seen on TV…and in movies 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Paul, who is engaged to a young woman of his own caste, goes off to join the luncheon. ‘Mothering Sunday’ Review: Sex, Death and Literature 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Their outrage was driven by the government's refusal to categorise their caste as one of the lowest. How Bollywood is starting to deal with India's caste system 2010-12-16T22:30:02Z Another woman lies about her caste to avoid discrimination. In "Writing With Fire," reporters from India's lowest caste defy the patriarchy to seek justice 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z She wants nothing less than “to remake the political critique of sex for the 21st century: to take seriously the complex relationship of sex to race, class, disability, nationality and caste.” ‘The Right to Sex’ Thinks Beyond the Parameters of Consent 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z In Hollywood's caste system, they are the untouchables. Hollywood filmmakers abuse lowly production staff 2010-04-08T11:01:00Z I loved many aspects of their Hindu belief system but, unsurprisingly, I hate the caste system. What’s in my name: tales that cross continents and generations 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z Equity Labs is a "South Asian technology organization dedicated to ending caste apartheid, gender-based violence, Islamophobia, White Supremacy and religious intolerance." My fellow Asian Americans, we must address the anti-Blackness rampant in our community 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Like most films that have dealt with caste since, it framed the topic in a Romeo-and-Juliet tale of star-crossed lovers, undone by the gossip and intolerance of their families and surrounding community. How Bollywood is starting to deal with India's caste system 2010-12-16T22:30:02Z The cruelty of the caste system that saved many first-class passengers while allowing most of the souls in steerage to drown. A sweeping 'Titanic in Concert' at 5th Avenue 2012-04-14T18:21:04Z In other flight news, JetBlue, the most democratic of airlines, is getting in on the cabin caste system. | Fly Like Rich People 2014-04-28T14:00:26Z Except that social media rankings here become IRL rankings, too: a sort of caste, or class, system. Reflections on Black Mirror – by those for whom science fiction became reality 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z One of his fundamental points is how rigid, though invisible, America’s caste system is. On the Touchy Subject of Class in America 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z The second volume of Guha’s monumental biography takes on Mohandas Gandhi’s political and personal struggles and evolving views on caste up to the end of his life. New in Paperback: ‘The Parisian’ and ‘Black Moses’ 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z The story centers on a family in southern India whose lives are upended when a young visiting relative drowns, and explores the religious, caste and class divisions that have shaped the lives of the characters. After a 20-Year Hiatus, the Booker Prize-Winning Novelist Arundhati Roy Returns to Fiction 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z These are introductory recipes for the home cook, and though they don’t all belong to one region, caste or religious group, they do all welcome you into the kitchen. Tejal Rao’s 10 Essential Indian Recipes 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Their raps about class, caste and poverty caught fire around the nation, especially among younger generations. Ranveer Singh Champions Indian Rap. ‘Gully Boy’ Provided a Spark. 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Ghosh: The caste system — officially practicing it is illegal; constitutionally, its banned. In "Writing With Fire," reporters from India's lowest caste defy the patriarchy to seek justice 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z Its portrait of what the author called “the progress of the Russian Soviets and their two dictators” would have been found less offensive, he wrote, “if the predominant caste in the fable were not pigs.” Exhibition Review: ?In the Company of Animals? Opens at the Morgan Library 2012-03-02T21:47:25Z It’s a thankless job made all the more challenging by the fact that the other castes reject, and in some cases hunt, Crows. No Rest for This Teenage Mercy Killer 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z There are insights into the rigours of the caste system, the employment of courtesans, advice on grooming, on elegant living and dining, where "questions of poetry and art" are discussed with courtesans. The Kama Sutra's lessons for modern lovers 2011-02-14T11:31:31Z I prefer caste system because I believe it better characterises the larger forces at work. Recognising caste discrimination will improve life for Britain's Dalits 2010-12-21T15:34:38Z It is a chance for low caste daemons to rise up the strict caste system and join the ruling class. Carnival of Souls by Melissa Marr - review 2013-04-04T14:00:00Z In North Bastar, Baba Bihari Das had started an aggressive drive to "bring tribals back into the Hindu fold", which involved a campaign to denigrate tribal culture, induce self-hatred, and introduce Hinduism's great gift – caste. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part Two 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z After all, this is a country where the one-drop rule was once the standard — even a smidgen of black heritage marked one as African American and subject to the nation’s racial caste system. Passing in reverse: What does an NAACP leader’s case say about race? 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z “Colored. Girl. Exposed to touch. Or trash. I’m from North Philadelphia. Of the wrong class. Of the wrong caste.” A Police Bombing, Homes on Fire and an Opera That Grapples With It All 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Hall’s interview subjects were likewise sisters and pedigreed white Southerners who broke radically with their caste. The Daughters of the Confederacy Who Turned Their Heritage to Political Ends 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Survivors don’t group into castes according to birth, race, income or religion. The Social Split Between TV and Movie Dystopias 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z It’s that clichéd but ever-trendy place with two castes: the rich, beautiful, famous types and the yes-people who do their bidding. Review: In ‘Oh! You Pretty Things,’ Shanna Mahin Dishes on Hollywood Foibles 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z It’s a book about an Indian who goes to India and realises that he has no place there – it’s an area of darkness for him, because he’s lost his sense of caste. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z Wilkerson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of “The Warmth of Other Suns,” places America’s racism in a global context, linking it to the caste system in India as well as Nazi ideology. 13 Books to Watch For in August 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z They were seeking political asylum from a caste system that put restrictions on them that's hard to imagine now. Isabel Wilkerson on Black America's Immigration Story 2010-10-02T06:20:00Z It is common knowledge in India that you are lucky to eat like a Chettiar, as members of this ancient trading caste are known, and the cuisine here is justly famed. Five Hotels That Get Five Stars 2011-12-02T14:36:36Z “The New Jim Crow,” by Michelle Alexander, and “Just Mercy,” by Bryan Stevenson, for overwhelming evidence of caste in our criminal justice system. Isabel Wilkerson Loves Books. That Doesn’t Mean She Treats Them Gently. 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Made within the conventional Bollywood model – songs, dance, romance, comedy and action all rolled into one – they deal with corruption and bureaucracy and, in the case of Aarakshan, the perennially difficult matter of caste. Grit in the masala: Aarakshan and Bollywood's social conscience 2011-08-25T21:30:01Z Back then, the conference was notorious for its alleged “caste system” and for its nickname, perhaps well-earned, Bed Loaf. My Summer Waiting Tables at the Writers’ Retreat 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z When he is hired as a teaching assistant in the engineering department of a university in Seattle, a friends tells him that “caste would be meaningless in the United States.” She Wrote a Dystopian Novel. Now Her Fiction Is Crossing Into Reality. 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z In my opinion, the root of this chronic inaction is that the entire system of Hollywood operates on an intense caste system of Inside and Outside. There's a reason why stars call out Hollywood in Oscars speeches — and why others stay silent 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Congrats to the writers, caste and crew and everyone else who worked to pull this off. Review: ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Raises the Bar for Broadway Magic 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z Wine grapes, however, still seem to be in the grip of an inflexible caste system that establishes the limits of a grape’s potential. It’s Time to Put the Noble Grapes in Their Place 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Sammy the Bull is not a fan, his daughter said, apparently because he is still loyal to a Mafia caste system of who is a made member or who is not. With ?Mob Wives?: Silent Partners No Longer 2012-03-28T21:24:05Z What was once scandalized, forbidden, subaltern, rises from its rightful caste hidden and below and speaks in the very locations of its oppressing power. Protest music?s odd conservative turn 2012-05-21T15:38:00Z When word of her skill gets out, she must decide whether to leave her caste and way of life behind. 14 New Books to Watch For in February 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Taseer attempts to focus the book on his interactions with Brahmins, Hinduism’s priestly caste. “The Twice-Born,” A Searching Memoir About India’s Identity Crisis 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z As yet, Mister H does not rival Rose Bar, the once-sizzling lounge at the Gramercy Park Hotel, or the various velvet ropes at the Standard in New York’s elite caste of hotel nightclubs. Bo?te: Mr. H in the Mondrian SoHo 2011-07-27T16:51:35Z This is because Martin is a member of the absolute lowest caste of celebrities: The Sullied, or the slightly-well-known hedge funders. Prince Harry and Pippa Middleton: the myth behind the confected romance 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z But among women interviewed for this article, there exists a caste system of elastic-waist pants, governing their permissibility for certain occasions. To Stretch or Not to Stretch 2011-03-16T20:29:27Z Its caste nature is not only impossible to forget, but should remind us of the unbalanced racial profile of America’s bloated prison population today. Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z Many have taken issue with her conflation of race and caste. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z The resulting book helped upend the entire high-low cultural caste system that had put the Truffauts of the world on one level and the Hitchcocks of the world on another. Movie Listings for Oct. 23-29 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z No matter how you approach the event, you are instantly met with art that grapples with the legacies of war and colonialism; domination by race, gender, class and caste; ecological damage; disinformation; and social control. Berlin Biennale Wrestles With Big Issues (and Itself) 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Its heroine, Flora 717, is born into the worker caste, destined for nothing but the basest drudgery. Review of ‘The Bees’: Paull’s transfixing first novel exposes dangers of the hive mind But, he argued, when it comes to the law, there is “no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.” The Tumultuous Path From Emancipation to Segregation 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z This belief explains the persistence of the caste system, and the remarkable fact that a country that is home to one in three of the world’s poor has not come apart at the seams. We’re not gonna take it 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z “Final Follies,” which was finished only weeks before his death at 86, is a charming benediction and farewell to the caste whose demise he chronicled so faithfully. Review: The Ages of A.R. Gurney in the Wistful ‘Final Follies’ 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Since his family caste are goldsmiths, his uncle made him a sapphire ring. Finding Common Ground in the South, San Francisco and South India 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z In the village of Bagru, patterns traditionally denoted marital status and caste. Special Report: Asian Art: Indian Print Artisans at Work 2011-05-26T18:00:08Z What observations do you have about the caste system? In "Writing With Fire," reporters from India's lowest caste defy the patriarchy to seek justice 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z The hero is Moshe Fisher, who in his infancy was found floating in a basket like Moses, with a skin that defied color and caste. A Novel of Jamaica Brimming With Magic, Passion and History 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z The god Krishna, disguised as his charioteer, incites him to action, explaining that it is Arjuna’s divine duty, as a member of the warrior caste. In ‘Godsong,’ a New Poem That’s 2,000 Years Old 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z Corruption, scams, murders, political intrigue, even stories of caste and love, are emerging from smaller places. Bollywood gets real 2012-09-13T15:12:26Z Some live in societies that deny or discourage educational opportunities to members of certain genders, religions, ethnicities and castes. One vision of tomorrow’s college: Cheap, tailored to you, and you get a real education, not a degree 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z But she doesn’t follow Allison Davis’s example and attend to the intertwining of class and caste. What Do America’s Racial Problems Have in Common With India and Nazi Germany? 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Indians in East Africa had also, to some extent, left their caste consciousness behind in the old country; Hindus married Muslims and Ismailis and Christians, and now and then there was an Indian-African marriage. Priya Ramrakha’s Brief, Heroic Life as a Conflict Photographer, in Africa and Beyond 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Not that you had any leisure, really, to realize how weirdly compelling they were, in their pointed commentary on caste and wardrobe. Hashtag Fashion on the Rise 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z And in the cosmos' caste system, humans occupy a low rung. How "Supernatural" reflects the American spirit and the monstrous darkness lurking underneath 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z The most significant aspect of my surname, however, is that in India it identifies where I belong in the Hindu caste system. What’s in my name: tales that cross continents and generations 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Murugan’s fictional villages are places full of quiet menace, where caste boundaries are protected with violence and social exclusion. ‘A Censor Is Seated Inside Me Now’: Hometown Wrath Tests a Novelist 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z They chose each other—and worse, they chose from rival castes. We’re not gonna take it 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Goats have a defined social caste, despite their laid back goofiness. The Year of the Goat 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z A closer look at the class and caste divides that hold women back might have given the show greater depth, Sharma said. With ‘Four More Shots Please!,’ India Gets Its Own ‘Sex and the City’ 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z In the case of Brás Cubas, however, blindness is never presented as foolishness or a kind of innocence but as a method of cruelty particular to his caste, the white elite of Rio de Janeiro. A Playful Masterpiece That Expanded the Novel’s Possibilities 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Bly never grasped, it seems, the core concept of feminism, that the attributes of masculinity and femininity are cultural fabrications, rooted in a caste system in which one sex serves the other. Revisiting Jill Johnston’s Critique of Robert Bly and ‘Iron John’ 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Her defining experience as an outsider informed her ability to inhabit characters regardless of their gender, class, race and caste. Review | Ruth Prawar Jhabvala’s stories capture an India that no longer exists 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z If race is like caste, perhaps that is because the concept of caste descends, originally, from that of race. What Do America’s Racial Problems Have in Common With India and Nazi Germany? 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z I can buy into maenads, vampire caste systems, and religious right megacults, but not when the whole package is shoved into an hour-long episode. "True Blood" recap 4x1: Of fairies, brujas, and "Office Space" 2011-06-26T07:01:00Z What he doesn’t want to discuss is caste. In ‘Godsong,’ a New Poem That’s 2,000 Years Old 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z But General Skaldak – Sovereign of the Olympian caste, vanquisher of the Phobos Heresy – is part of a backstory that was never told in the old days. Doctor Who: Cold War – series 33, episode 8 2013-04-13T17:45:01Z But that’s not entirely true, especially when fairness, caste, class and even body type dictate so much of what is depicted. New & Noteworthy, From Vivian Gornick’s Essays to No-Recipe Recipes 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z I have some sense where most books are, but not through applicable logic, though I do have a proximity caste system. How Susan Sontag Influenced Patti Smith’s Reading Life 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Here he grapples with caste prejudice and the Indian version of affirmative action: the reserving of spots in schools for low or “backward” castes. | 'Aarakshan': A Battle for India?s Soul 2011-08-12T12:21:08Z Seen as a predominantly upper-class Brahmanical drink, coffee played a direct role in the early-mid 1900s, as Srinivasa writes, in the Tamil caste's struggle for equal access to the coffee houses of the time. South Indian filter coffee is like no coffee you've had before 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z The journalists, who are in the lowest caste in India, have been working for nearly two decades, despite being told what they are doing is "unthinkable." In "Writing With Fire," reporters from India's lowest caste defy the patriarchy to seek justice 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z Told from multiple viewpoints, the novel centers on the politics of the circus as much as it does on the larger caste system of this new world. The best sci-fi and fantasy books for May 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Though its menu roams the subcontinent, Chettinadu specializes in a cuisine rarely seen in this area, one first created by a caste of wealthy Chettinad traders whose travels influenced their cooking. The 10 best bargain restaurants in the D.C. suburbs 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Law professor and former Supreme Court clerk Michelle Alexander argues “we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it”. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z One woman describes it as a "weight on her back," and that caste identity will always follow them. In "Writing With Fire," reporters from India's lowest caste defy the patriarchy to seek justice 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z When they were asked to do so anonymously, there was no caste difference in performance. We’ve been brainwashed 2012-06-14T17:21:00Z He too is frustrated by horse-trading politicians, inequality of wealth and caste, incessant Indian meddling and the dreadful former king. Between a rock and a high place 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z She asserts that under caste systems in the colonial Americas, “the whitest a person of color could be was castizo, the child of a mestizo and a Spaniard.” Descended From Shamans and Ghost Whisperers 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z And for the effect of caste in economics, the work of William A. Darity, specifically, “Persistent Disparity” and “From Here to Equality.” Isabel Wilkerson Loves Books. That Doesn’t Mean She Treats Them Gently. 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z He was the descendant of a long line of griots, a nomadic, noble caste responsible for recounting oral history and resolving conflicts as a form of artistic social duty. Sotigui Kouyat? obituary 2010-05-02T17:25:00Z It reads: “Shop is open to all caste.” In Transit: A Drinker's Guide to Mumbai's 'Permit Rooms' 2011-05-11T10:00:49Z Rising chauvinism across India about religion and caste is also putting pressure on film-makers. From vibrators to gay kisses, how Bollywood embraced the taboo 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Our two-week unit on Hinduism during eighth grade social studies, the majority of which was spent memorizing the intricacies of the caste system, hadn’t exactly afforded me the same bragging rights. There is no such thing as an “unbiased” history class: The right-wing backlash against AP U.S. history masks a deeper problem with how and what we teach 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z All were lifted but for the one imposed in Uttar Pradesh, India's largest state and one particularly mired in caste politics. Grit in the masala: Aarakshan and Bollywood's social conscience 2011-08-25T21:30:01Z Maybe to “become more like a woman in any way, for a man, is to sacrifice status and caste placement in our culture.” Why don’t more men take their wives’ last names? 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Enterprising merchants from the Gujarati bania caste within South Africa’s Indian community created takeaway counters to serve makeshift lunches to laborers. In Durban, South Africa, 13 Curry Stops in 5 Days 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z The Times critic Parul Sehgal wrote that the new novel “examines the oppressions of caste and colorism, government surveillance, the abuse of women — all cunningly folded into the biography of an unhappy little goat.” National Book Awards Names 2020 Nominees 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z The co-existence of Muslims and Hindus in the same prison is for the most part peaceful, and the Hindu caste system is relaxed. | 'Ramchand Pakistani': A Boy Caught in the India-Pakistan Crossfire 2010-04-20T22:55:00Z As with so much in India, caste is an ancient institution that pervades everyday life, the mechanics of which remain a convoluted mystery. How Bollywood is starting to deal with India's caste system 2010-12-16T22:30:02Z The study touched on how lying affects the ways we move through the world and on the loyalty that exists in the various castes of the grift. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 6: Promises 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Race is and is not like Indian caste. What Do America’s Racial Problems Have in Common With India and Nazi Germany? 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z There are other customs and beliefs embedded in the story that clash with Western social ideals — for instance, the concept of a society rigidly divided into preordained castes. ACT gambles big on 'The Ramayana, a Hindu epic cherished by millions 2012-10-10T22:44:05Z But because they were in different castes, Melina called it off. "In Treatment" recap: Sunil's suicidal threat 2010-11-16T13:30:00Z He was of a caste of no consequence. Digested classic: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 2010-04-15T11:25:00Z Among the artists invited were singers from the griot caste, known as poets and historians. Malian music by moonlight seems far from country's woes 2013-11-27T11:27:16Z There isn’t enough discussion, she said, of how the freed Black people who founded Liberia treated the Indigenous population as a lower caste. Marking a Different Thanksgiving Tradition, From West Africa 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z Angry members of Rajput caste groups rioted in cities and threatened to mutilate Padukone if the film was released. From vibrators to gay kisses, how Bollywood embraced the taboo 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z The soul of Mr. Abel’s presentation is traditional music preserved and performed by the Manganiyars, a caste of hereditary singers and instrumentalists based in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Music Review: Muslim Troupe Arrives With Splash and Age-Old Ecumenical Traditions 2010-11-23T22:43:00Z Aravind Adiga’s novel about a driver in India who rises to become a successful businessman despite the stratified caste system was an international bestseller and critical darling, winning the Man Booker Prize in 2008. How Netflix helped ‘The White Tiger’ movie become a reality 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z It was the first I had heard of Dollard or seen the word “caste” applied to America. Isabel Wilkerson Loves Books. That Doesn’t Mean She Treats Them Gently. 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Here, on what used to be the Strip, a militarized government uses the Bellagio as both capital and palace, while everyone else scrapes by in a caste system. SyFy’s ‘Dominion’: Survivng the post-apocalypse with some low-rent angels Jean-François Laguionie’s witty animated film “The Painting,” takes place within the borders of an unfinished canvas whose characters represent a rigid caste system. ?Intouchables? in Rendez-Vous With French Cinema Festival 2012-02-29T13:00:00Z Internecine violence and “disunity” made the “Negro caste … less resistant to the white domination,” Dollard wrote. America’s Refusal to Address the Roots of Violence 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z Calhoun’s particular interest was, of course, that of his own slave-owning caste, but he believed that at issue was the general principle of minority rights. John C. Calhoun: Protector of Minorities? 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Culture, as a particular mix of religion, superstition, and the calculations of power, and with caste as a crucial determinant, is central to the story that Murugan is telling. How Perumal Murugan Was Resurrected Through Writing 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Ask the above men and women for their views on India's ancient caste system. How to fix the culturally ignorant "Outsourced" 2010-10-01T17:48:00Z They all have the same skills, but one group must somehow let the others know they’re a better caste of working class. "Downton Abbey" is entirely unnecessary, and essential viewing for super-fans 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Even while he still saw some value in the caste system, Gandhi opposed untouchability. A New Biography Presents Gandhi, Warts and All 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z The irony of Douthat's position is that as a layman he is critiquing the clerical caste, i.e., the Pope while simultaneously maintaining that that caste is the source of all wisdom. A Conservative Catholic Begs the Pope: Lead Us Not Into Temptation 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z In this system, some people comply, others pursue a higher-class status within the caste and still others turn inward. America’s Refusal to Address the Roots of Violence 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z It will surprise no one that honor matters among this impoverished caste; nor will it surprise that there were watchers. The Deaths of Teenage Cousins in a Village in India Have Global Ramifications 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z Behind all those celebrity dress designers and hairdressers, there is another caste of stylists, publicists and personal trainers who are the divas of their own sub-ecosystems. 2010-02-01T08:18:00Z "It's pushing borders, not just about disability but about the way we think in terms of community and caste in India and how we place people in different boxes quite conveniently." South Asian women step out of Bollywood, into serious dramatic roles 2014-09-13T04:00:00Z What books would you recommend to somebody who wants to learn more about America’s caste system? Isabel Wilkerson Loves Books. That Doesn’t Mean She Treats Them Gently. 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z “To promote your eliteness — to secure your caste — you must ruthlessly manage your training and labor,” he said. The Meritocrat Who Wants to Unwind the Meritocracy 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z It was 1459, and over the next 500 years the Rathores, a Hindu clan of the warrior caste, built a life both cosmopolitan and grand. ‘Peacock in the Desert’ Review: Courting Opulence in Northwest India 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z “The spread of modernity in India threatened caste but also made the need to assert it more vehement,” he writes. “The Twice-Born,” A Searching Memoir About India’s Identity Crisis 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z In “Pyre,” published in English by Penguin Books in April, a well-loved young man brings a wife of a different caste to live among his relatives, hoping they will eventually accept her. ‘A Censor Is Seated Inside Me Now’: Hometown Wrath Tests a Novelist 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Tochi, the most sympathetic one, grew up in a family that belonged to the so-called untouchable caste. Review: ‘The Year of the Runaways,’ About Fighting for Scraps in a New Country 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Lower-caste members are dehumanized and stigmatized, kept in their place through cruelty and terror, and forbidden to intermarry with members of the higher castes. What Do America’s Racial Problems Have in Common With India and Nazi Germany? 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z At the military encampment, Ramchand becomes the servant of a female military official of a higher caste who, to the boy’s chagrin, treats him disdainfully. | 'Ramchand Pakistani': A Boy Caught in the India-Pakistan Crossfire 2010-04-20T22:55:00Z It works against the interest of the government to create this vaccinated caste system. Laura Ingraham: ‘What I think is best is to let people make their own personal medical decisions, which I thought that liberals used to be in favor of’ 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Her surname means "one who has received religious initiation" and it can be kept only by Brahmins, the highest, priestly caste among Indians. NZealand TV host resigns after mocking Indian name 2010-10-10T12:16:00Z The airlines and the supposedly neutral bureaucrats of the TSA don’t even pretend that our society is not divided into economic castes. The New Gilded Age: A bigger con job than the first one 2014-04-26T16:30:00Z The third is the sagely or clerical-intellectual caste, dating from the days of the monks in medieval Christian society and finding its present-day embodiment in the bureaucrat, the technocrat and the expert. Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power by David Priestland – review 2012-08-23T09:40:01Z The families of the girls laid the blame on a local boy and his kin, of a more powerful caste. A Double Tragedy in India and the Search for Elusive Answers 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Indian journalist Manu Joseph's satirical debut novel "Serious Men" and Chinese author Bi Feiyu's "Three Sisters" tackle class, caste, gender and social conflicts, and topped the shortlist of five works prize organizers released Tuesday. Man Asian prize shortlists works from China, India 2011-02-16T07:16:05Z They think instead about themselves and people like them, family and friends, caste and community. Is Globalization Drawing Us Together or Tearing Us Apart? 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z And without a hierarchy, there is no caste of haughty arbiters, no mass of meek followers, no avant or rear guard. An Oscar-Fashion Report Card 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z She observes that caste “is about respect, authority and assumptions of competence — who is accorded these and who is not.” Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ Is an ‘Instant American Classic’ About Our Abiding Sin 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z The novel examines the oppressions of caste and colorism, government surveillance, the abuse of women — all cunningly folded into the biography of an unhappy little goat. One of India’s Most Original and Controversial Novelists Returns With a Powerful Parable 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Kings Dominion is defined by its divisions, with the privileged existing uneasily on the same social strata, taking out any pent-up disdain on the kids of the lowest caste. Hogwarts for killers: "Deadly Class" takes teen drama to deadly extremes 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z The author, who was born into a low caste before leaving for the United States, offers an unsettling view of how discrimination, segregation and prejudice are very much alive in contemporary India. New in Paperback: ‘Who Is Rich?,’ ‘The Stars in Our Eyes’ 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Across the web, a new gossip press further enables these lesser celebrity castes. A Celebrity Z-List? Yes, It Exists 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z It's a reminder of how easily the discipline of armed struggle can dissolve into lumpen acts of criminalized violence, or into ugly wars of identity between castes and communities and religious groups. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part Five 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z As a Dalit, he belongs to a caste once considered “untouchable,” and is treated by the judge and the prosecutor as an eccentric rabble-rouser and public nuisance. Review: ‘Court’ Is Chaitanya Tamhane’s Unsparing Look at Justice in India 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z First, there is Wilson’s deep immersion in the Gulf’s culture, with its distinctive caste system, bickering subgroups and the peculiar lassitude of a people whose lives and speech are strictly controlled. “Alif the Unseen”: Hacker meets Jinn 2012-07-01T22:00:00Z The second is the soldier caste, originating in the warrior aristocracy of the feudal middle ages and emphasising heroism, aggression and discipline. Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power by David Priestland – review 2012-08-23T09:40:01Z The four-part Netflix documentary “Daughters of Destiny” is a celebration of a pioneering school for the children of Dalits, members of the lowest group in the oppressive caste system that still shapes Indian society. Review: ‘Daughters of Destiny’ on Netflix Explores Caste Struggles in India 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z How they started filtering out dark-skinned people and women for lower caste jobs, because that was the only place that they were showing up in the system that was entered into. "Black women are from the future": Author says Black girls aren't magic, but are ahead of their time 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Their very names say "no" to a system that signifies who you are supposed to be, defined by your caste. In "Writing With Fire," reporters from India's lowest caste defy the patriarchy to seek justice 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z Mohabir must pretend to be Brahman, the highest, priestly caste, to enter the home of Brahman villagers. Review | Rajiv Mohabir’s ‘Antiman’ is a memoir that refuses genre 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z Having secured the military principle of caste privilege, he is determined to show British superiority in engineering and administration. Peter Mullan's Neds heads London film festival's most-awaited list 2010-10-21T16:37:00Z Many privileged WASPs pushed Yale and other schools to cap the number of Jews admitted and generally tried to transform the upper class into a caste defined on ethnic and communal lines. John Kerry Describes Politics as It Used to Be 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Guha’s book charts the two men’s interactions over decades, along with Gandhi’s own changing views on caste. A New Biography Presents Gandhi, Warts and All 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Here are other typical questions: “Does the caste system still exist? When do you think it will disappear?” Perspective | I’m not Salman Rushdie and other assumptions I’m tired of hearing at book events 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z He details Gandhi’s exhaustive campaigns to allow untouchables into temples, and his many attempts to persuade other Hindus of his caste to accept them. A New Biography Presents Gandhi, Warts and All 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Having escaped India’s ancient caste system, they discover an equally rigid system in their new, supposedly liberal home. ‘The Year of the Runaways’ review: ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ for the 21st century 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z In an animated prologue, we learn of the war between vampires and humans, of how the Church saved humanity by training a warrior caste of priests to fight the bloodsuckers. 'Priest': Heaven help us 2011-05-13T16:47:04Z As the group decides to stage a production about “honor killings” — filicides of lovers who dare cross caste and religious lines — creative differences become political battles, and romantic tiffs become ideological impasses. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z His own background is an example of the complexity of the Nepalese experience – riven by caste and kicked around like a political football – while giving him an international sensibility. The Gurkha's Daughter by Prajwal Parajuly – review 2013-01-25T22:55:01Z The conventional art-fair caste system, which gives certain power galleries privileged visibility, has been modified, though not eliminated. Art Review | Independent: An Abundance of Room, an Absence of V.I.P. Gloss 2010-03-04T23:16:00Z S. Anand, a journalist who also runs a publishing house that focuses on caste issues, wrote a scathing article in Outlook magazine, accusing Khan's handling of caste issues as being "manipulative and fake". Bollywood superstar takes on real crusades in TV chat show 2012-07-31T04:40:20Z Nor does Parajuly spare the system which puts his own Brahmin caste at the apex. The Gurkha's Daughter by Prajwal Parajuly – review 2013-01-25T22:55:01Z The chart competition wasn’t just about positions or a triumph of British pride: It became a war between economic classes and social castes, a way to declare ideological allegiances instead of just musical preferences. Lessons from the Britpop wars: Brush off the pre-social media era dust and the relics of 1995 feel almost fresh again 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Is Alexander arguing that the mass incarceration and its legacy is part of a plan to maintain a racial caste system, rather than the result of neutral state action? The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z Born into a caste of candy-makers, he quickly concludes that the complex stratification of Indian society has devolved into a simpler hierarchy of masters and servants. ‘The White Tiger’ Review: Don’t Call Him a Slumdog 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z The film also serves as an indictment of a caste system in which even the best-intentioned members of the upper class are sometimes oblivious to the plight of the poor. The Week Ahead: Nov. 20 ? 26 2011-11-18T22:01:22Z However, discussing caste is hampered by official taboos. How Bollywood is starting to deal with India's caste system 2010-12-16T22:30:02Z They did have a caste system over there. This Motown star knew that ‘Midnight Plane to Houston’ just wouldn’t do 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z The cleft of the title refers as much to caste division as to Kaali's deformity. The Gurkha's Daughter by Prajwal Parajuly – review 2013-01-25T22:55:01Z America’s racial divisions are examined and reframed as a caste system. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z When I return, the service is being led by Gallion, who, in the span of 20 minutes, talks about etheric doubles, Atlantis and the caste system. In the heart of D.C.’s tony Georgetown, a church that communes with the dead 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Moreover, retail investors are not an oppressed caste, and their politics are not necessarily aligned with the global working class. Why the left loves Martin Scorsese movies – especially right now 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z The brutal realities of caste, its violence and sustaining context of superstition, ignorance and social neurosis have rarely been addressed head-on. How Bollywood is starting to deal with India's caste system 2010-12-16T22:30:02Z As group identities based on caste, ethnicity and religion gradually attenuated, anger and hope were being privatised, like so much else in Mumbai. The Guardian first book award: the shortlisted authors introduce their work 2012-11-09T22:50:02Z When one or other of these castes becomes too dominant, crisis usually ensues and it is replaced by another. Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power by David Priestland – review 2012-08-23T09:40:01Z Finally, near the very end of his narrative, Taseer comes up against the issue of caste. A Pakistani-Indian Journalist Attempts to Rediscover His Roots 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z It examines the oppressions of caste and colorism, government surveillance, the abuse of women — all cunningly folded into the biography of an unhappy little goat. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z She also shows us the darker side of history: peasants starving in famine, violent executions for petty crimes and the brutal racism and classism of the caste system. ‘The Strangler Vine,’ by M.J. Carter 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, essential versus nonessential workers has become the new caste system. What’s ‘essential,’ anyway? Roses, guns, manicures, marijuana — it all depends on who’s deciding. 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z It's all about surfing the station's social caste system, making influential pals and attaining ever more lucrative and aspirational employment. RedShirt – or what happens when Facebook meets Star Trek 2013-05-01T10:01:14Z He found the city heavily segregated by class and caste. How we met: 'He was very sexy but also very honest and good' 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z She identifies eight cornerstones of caste systems throughout history and across the world, and uses vignettes from real-life people to illustrate how inequality acts as an invisible, but deeply felt, blueprint for their lives. 13 Books to Watch For in August 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Carol, taking over as governor, plans to dismantle the caste system that made the Commonwealth so unjust. ‘The Walking Dead’ Ends With a Promise of More Life 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z It set me on a course of researching everything I could about caste, and I have been using the word ever since. Isabel Wilkerson Loves Books. That Doesn’t Mean She Treats Them Gently. 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z There is much to be angry about: growing inequalities of wealth and opportunity; injustices of class and caste; economic exploitation at home and abroad; corruption and money and privilege occluding the arteries of democracy. Tony Judt: A manifesto for a new politics 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z For Wilkerson, the power of the caste model is that it situates race as merely its “faithful servant,” and overt racism as merely a subset of its malign workings. What Do America’s Racial Problems Have in Common With India and Nazi Germany? 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Hotels and restaurants placed ads to attract attendees; in 1839, the Temperance Eating Room in Boston promised that its owner “treats people irrespective of color, the spirit of caste does not enter his door.” Colored Conventions, a Rallying Point for Black Americans Before the Civil War 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Styling himself a reformer even as he clung to the declining patrician caste system, he wrote blistering essays about the men who could elevate him to power. The Brilliant, Bitter, Unlikable Scion of an American Political Dynasty 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Dollard explained that “some of the hostility properly directed toward the white caste is deflected from it and focused within the Negro group itself.” America’s Refusal to Address the Roots of Violence 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z They will probably tell you that a person's caste doesn't affect his romantic dealings or workplace politics. How to fix the culturally ignorant "Outsourced" 2010-10-01T17:48:00Z The situation in India proves to be far more complex, fraught with issues of poverty and caste as well as tension between religious factions. 'Great Soul': Joseph Lelyveld tells Mahatma Gandhi's larger-than-life story 2011-04-06T22:21:04Z So apparently atavistic, it seems to fit naturally with the retrograde nature of Southern life and labor, its economic and cultural underdevelopment, its racial caste system and its desperate attachment to the “lost cause.” Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z Due to planetary circumstances, what was meant to be a pit stop becomes a society of its own, divided into a caste system roughly corresponding to clinical diagnoses. The Essential Philip K. Dick 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Most of Priestland's book is devoted to a narrative account of recent history seen in terms of the competition between these three castes. Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power by David Priestland – review 2012-08-23T09:40:01Z As she writes in this poignant memoir: “Your life is your caste, your caste is your life.” New in Paperback: ‘Who Is Rich?,’ ‘The Stars in Our Eyes’ 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Each sex can do almost anything that the other does, and the rules that limited opportunity because of caste, race or gender have proved baseless. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z And the Black church is where a charismatic young preacher from Atlanta plotted a nonviolent overthrow of the racial caste system in the South. Raphael Warnock’s campaign for the moral high ground 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z “He Calls Me by Lightning” insists that we face the cost of lives that don’t matter to a persistent racial caste system. The Civil Rights Stories We Need to Remember 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z There's no caste, no padlocked gate, no invisible hand holding you down, no limits. Post-Oprah, Americans still hooked on self-help 2011-07-12T21:45:00Z But it does know the southern caste system and the premium that system placed on propriety. Why Do the Oscars Keep Falling for Racial Reconciliation Fantasies? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Let’s compare that to the power held by the corporate elite caste, the overlords of Wall Street and the City of London, the national-security state and the prison-industrial complex. Why we fight about Colbert and Lena Dunham: Twitter politics are all we have left 2014-03-29T16:00:00Z When friends commented on his looks, I’d joke how he belonged to a higher aesthetic caste. “When a woman is smarter than a man”: My mother’s lessons in beauty and independence 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z The brief sojourn turns into a 21-year expedition in which Gandhi's beliefs on British colonial rule and India - in particular the discriminative caste system - are consistently tested. A portrait of Gandhi's growth as social reformer 2011-03-29T17:01:04Z In the movie, we see the inclusion of important dynamics like caste, gender roles, child marriage, and there's almost a casualness to it. Director of Netflix’s “Skater Girl" on making a film set in India that avoids white savior tropes 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z This was a story of caste violence, it was decided. A Double Tragedy in India and the Search for Elusive Answers 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z For many Indians, particularly certain Hindu castes, Vedic astrology is that umbrella. The True Story of My Marriage to a Pot 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z They often quarrelled, sometimes over trivial things, such as the meaning of the word epicenter, or more serious ones, such as the future of the caste system in India. Memories of V. S. Naipaul 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z The cruelties of India's caste system and the insularity of China's imperial court are more gently treated than British imperialism, but their consequences are also acknowledged. Amitav Ghosh sails into the Opium War with trilogy finale 'Flood of Fire' 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z This helps keep a pernicious social caste system intact, ruled over by Alphas and Betas — and on down to a servile class of Epsilons. Review | Peacock arrives with a big archive and a few new shows (‘Brave New World’) that aren’t much to strut about 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z As a born Airbender, he can summon impressive windstorms, and the insufferably New Age priestly caste of the Water Nation will soon teach him their Zen-psychotherapy approach to controlling the wet stuff as well. "The Last Airbender": Shyamalan's fantasy schlockfest 2010-07-01T00:31:00Z Today, Priestland says, the merchant caste rules alone in the west. Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power by David Priestland – review 2012-08-23T09:40:01Z However, magic — the superstitious belief in the efficacy of rituals and astrology, along with the measures taken to avoid pollution from contact with lower castes — is stupid, destructive, cruel. A Pakistani-Indian Journalist Attempts to Rediscover His Roots 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z Gunnar Myrdal’s “An American Dilemma” remains perhaps the most comprehensive single work on what Myrdal himself came to see as a caste system in America. Isabel Wilkerson Loves Books. That Doesn’t Mean She Treats Them Gently. 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z While Hispanics and Asians have suffered from vicious bigotry in American history, anti-black prejudice has always been the organizing principle of caste in American culture. Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t say the N-word 2012-06-05T15:45:00Z The first of these is the merchant caste, or in modern parlance, the capitalists, promoting the values of business competition and the market. Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power by David Priestland – review 2012-08-23T09:40:01Z All of them are central to the complicated social caste system that make up the show’s version of early 1800s London. ‘Bridgerton’ Takes On Race. But Its Core Is Escapism. 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Oh wait, the wedding is over, I can stop pretending to be interested in the British caste system. Pop Torn: 10 pieces of culture we're feeling iffy about 2011-04-30T12:01:00Z The reference is to a caste of slave soldiers who rose to power in Egypt and Syria in the mid-13th century, and lingered as an exclusive and repressive ruling class for 500 years. Burning down their house 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z In part of Uttar Pradesh, the caste system works strongly. In "Writing With Fire," reporters from India's lowest caste defy the patriarchy to seek justice 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z The white poor in the South are treated just as badly, but they’re given this caste system that, just because you have white skin you’re better. The Protest Playlist, From the Hip-Hop Duo Run the Jewels 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z Just for starters, they’re about opportunity, representation, character, race and caste, fairness and justice — about who gets an equal playing field. Review: ‘We Are: The Brooklyn Saints’ Will Tackle Your Heart 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z According to him, white Christianity has not merely been a passive bystander in the construction of this nation’s racial caste system, it has been the primary cultural and religious institution creating, promoting and preserving it. Is the White Church Inherently Racist? 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z The student performers were also upset about being sorted into “gifted,” “honors,” and “double honors” castes, like members of a hotel rewards program. An Immersive Play That Transports You to a Chicago Public High School 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Some protested the racial caste system by escaping from their presidential masters, as Washington’s renowned and enslaved cook Hercules did in 1797. In the White House kitchen, hiding in plain sight As the United States awakens from one of its foundational myths — that we are a democracy without castes — the official record of our times is being written largely by people born to socioeconomic advantage. Chronicling a Community, and a Country, in Economic Crisis 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z The next frontier for Hindi cinema would be an unflinching look at the caste system, she says. From vibrators to gay kisses, how Bollywood embraced the taboo 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z The English word “pariah” is from the Tamil word “paraiyan,” which referred to a group of laborers who were shunned and abused by higher castes in India. Review | Rajiv Mohabir’s ‘Antiman’ is a memoir that refuses genre 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z “I don’t think that commercial Bollywood has looked at caste in an any kind of depth. We’ve so far only chosen to celebrate caste in very parochial and unthinking ways.” From vibrators to gay kisses, how Bollywood embraced the taboo 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z His 1965 novel, “Samskara,” written in the Kannada language, about a Hindu society stifled by caste and tradition, is widely considered to be one of the landmarks of 20th-century Indian literature. In ‘Hindutva or Hind Swaraj,’ a Warning Against Hindu Nationalism 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Five of Mandalay Bay’s upper floors are actually a Four Seasons, a caste within a caste. Mandalay Bay embodied everything modern Las Vegas wanted to be. Until this week. 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Our racial order, she argues, is a system of caste — a hierarchical structure of hereditary status. What Do America’s Racial Problems Have in Common With India and Nazi Germany? 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z “Yes, when indentured laborers arrived, conditions were terrible. But at the same time, caste fell apart. Gender relations were vastly reorganized. People were forced to renegotiate the terms of their relationships.” From the Wreckage of Caribbean Migration, a New Kind of Beauty 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z The two dozen 14-year-olds forming an imperfect circle in a large hall on this humid morning in the Berkshires hail from every tier of their adolescent caste system, from the anointed to the laughingstocks. Girls, Uninterrupted 2010-08-13T22:38:00Z If you don’t want to pass the great bottles, better to save them for smaller occasions with the oenophiles than create a caste system of worthy and unworthy cousins. Social Q?s: To Share and to Sip - Social Q?s 2011-12-22T23:10:23Z “England itself is probably the most racist country in the world with its royalty and its caste system.” Tommy Chong: 'We were always high. That was the job' 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z But writing his way out didn't mean dishonouring his caste. Sons and Lovers: a century on 2013-05-25T07:00:22Z “It’s a caste system, like golf,” she went on. Houda Benyamina, the French Filmmaker Who Brought the Banlieues to Hollywood 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z The United States focuses less on caste and class differences than India or Britain, she said, so the possible differences between two South Asians would not be as apparent to an American audience. A Bollywood Favorite Is Remade for the Stage, Raising Eyebrows 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Pip becomes an Indian village boy whose encounter with an escaped convict leads to a startling change in his life, lived out against a backdrop of Indian caste and English class obsessions. This week's new theatre 2011-02-12T00:05:39Z “While he had Indian and European friends of all castes, classes and faiths, he forged no real friendships with Africans,” Mr. Guha observes. ‘Gandhi Before India’ Shows How the Mahatma Was Made 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z Ants fascinate me, with their matriarchy, industry, and powerful sense of smell, which they use to recognize the caste of other colony members. How I Solved It: Transforming Ideas into Smells 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z “Daughters of Destiny” follows five girls from India’s lowest caste who are hoping to change their fates. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Daughters of Destiny’ and ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z "What tied them together was the caste system that ruled their days," explains Wilkerson. Genealogy class sprouts tale of Great Migration 2011-01-14T23:06:00Z Roth’s series “Daughters of Destiny” chronicles the lives of five girls from Indian families of the Dalit caste and hail from some of the most impoverished communities in the world. WATCH: Girls in India “go from invisible to unstoppable” in Netflix series 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z The Appalachian hill country and much of the Deep South were settled by a wild caste of emigrants from the borderlands of Scotland and England. Joe Klein Explains How the History of Four Centuries Ago Still Shapes American Culture and Politics 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z “The Good Girls” gathers all these strands: of sexual violence and caste, new types of media narratives and ancient taboos — no story exists in isolation after all. A Double Tragedy in India and the Search for Elusive Answers 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z A century later, the caste that might draw a climber like Undine Spragg to New York is kaput. Events Like a Drawing Center Benefit and the Winter Antiques Show Gala Cater to the Rich and Famous 2014-01-29T23:20:15Z Accordingly, he renders caste discrimination with curious bafflement, while his critiques of white supremacy and colonialism are infused with fire. Review | Rajiv Mohabir’s ‘Antiman’ is a memoir that refuses genre 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z A “pandit” is a learned scholar; these words carry subtext about the way caste discrimination was wielded to bar lower-caste people from education. Review | Rajiv Mohabir’s ‘Antiman’ is a memoir that refuses genre 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z Educated at a Scottish missionary school and expelled from a friend’s wedding in his teens for being lower-caste, he began to see caste as an “an engine of suffering and exploitation.” India in Pieces 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z They get downsized while the top tier of management ascend to a godlike, super-rich caste. The Company Men ? review 2011-03-10T22:15:01Z A caste system for grapes is a backward-looking approach to a world with wonderful possibilities ahead of it. It’s Time to Put the Noble Grapes in Their Place 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Think of this as the advent of a new and powerful tier in the British caste system: the Upper Middleton class, a.k.a. nontitled “already haves” just outside London who want to have more. Pippa Middleton Goes Out on Her Own. But She’s Not Alone. 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Wine was elevated to a luxury good, and grapes were placed in a caste system and ranked by their “nobility.” France Defines Natural Wine, but Is That Enough? 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z And once our prisoners get out, they’re a stigmatized caste, uniquely ill-suited to survival in this economy — speaking of hunger, debt, poverty, being branded for life and hopelessness. Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z “It is the paramount duty of the state to make ample provision for the education of all children residing within its borders, without distinction or preference on account of race, color, caste, or sex.” Five seismic changes to education in Washington over the past decade 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z Manual scavenging is banned in India but the practice is still commonplace, with people forced into it because of rigid caste rules and the lack of other livelihood options. The unending pain of India's sanitation workers 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z Milei's brash style of railing against critics he denounces as "communists" and "the political caste" has earned him millions of social media followers, but given critics fodder to say he is unfit for office. Javier Milei: who is Argentina presidential hopeful and what are his policies? 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z "He's talking about a political caste against everyone else," says Ana Iparraguirre. Argentina election: Javier Milei, TikTok economist, leads polls 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z They see themselves in Milei’s crusade to shred the bloated state and what he calls “the political caste”. A man, a plan, a chainsaw: How a power tool took center stage in Argentina’s presidential race 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Now, to complicate matters for a professional caste which prides itself on being data-driven, the Middle East is throwing a new set of real but unquantifiable risks into their equations. Analysis: Middle East throws central banks yet more unknowns 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Mr Wilson says that even if workers want to leave the job, stigma and caste discrimination prevent them from doing so. The unending pain of India's sanitation workers 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z As he spoke, the adoring crowd repeatedly chanted: “The caste is afraid!” Desperate and disaffected, Argentines to vote whether upstart Milei leads them into the unknown 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z They had suggested that the court could just replace "man" and "woman" with "spouse" in the Special Marriage Act - which allows marriage between people from different religions, castes and countries - to include same-sex unions. India Supreme Court declines to legalise same-sex marriage 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z “The caste is trembling!” he yelled while brandishing a chainsaw spewing diesel fumes on a crowded street last month. A man, a plan, a chainsaw: How a power tool took center stage in Argentina’s presidential race 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z But they recognise weddings only between couples from their religion or caste. Same-sex marriage: India awaits historic Supreme Court verdict 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z The Dalit community is on the lowest rung of the Hindu caste system and members have been treated as "untouchables." Advocates of California bill to ban caste discrimination find veto heartbreaking 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z “We made history conducting the first advocacy days, caravans, and hunger strike for caste equity,” she said. California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes bill that would have banned caste discrimination 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z If passed, Senate Bill 403 would have made California the first state in the nation to explicitly acknowledge caste in its civil rights code. Gov. Newsom vetoes bill banning caste discrimination in the workplace, housing and beyond 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z Newsom's veto marked a rare but consequential setback in the movement against caste discrimination that had picked up momentum this year in North America. California bill veto is setback in North American fight against caste discrimination 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z Those at the lowest strata of the caste system, known as Dalits, have been pushing for legal protections in California and beyond. California governor vetoes bill that would have banned caste discrimination 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z Opponents of caste discrimination say it is no different from other forms of discrimination like racism and hence should be outlawed. Advocates of California bill to ban caste discrimination find veto heartbreaking 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z Had Newsom signed the bill, California would have become the first ever U.S. state to explicitly ban caste discrimination. California governor vetoes bill to ban caste discrimination 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z The Ravidassia community, which follows a 14th century Indian guru who preached caste equality and had Dalit roots, also spoke out for the bill. Gov. Newsom vetoes bill banning caste discrimination in the workplace, housing and beyond 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z Had the bill been signed into law, California would have become the first U.S. state to explicitly ban caste discrimination. California bill veto is setback in North American fight against caste discrimination 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z Earlier this year, Seattle became the first U.S. city to add caste to its anti-discrimination laws. California governor vetoes bill that would have banned caste discrimination 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z The revised version listed caste under "ancestry" and not as a separate category. Advocates of California bill to ban caste discrimination find veto heartbreaking 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z U.S. discrimination laws ban ancestry discrimination though they do not explicitly mention caste. California governor vetoes bill to ban caste discrimination 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z SB 403 would have included caste in the state laws’ definition of ancestry. Gov. Newsom vetoes bill banning caste discrimination in the workplace, housing and beyond 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z Here are some examples of recent policy steps across North America to fight caste discrimination: California bill veto is setback in North American fight against caste discrimination 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z On Sept. 28, Fresno became the second U.S. city and the first in California to prohibit discrimination based on caste by adding caste and indigeneity to its municipal code. California governor vetoes bill that would have banned caste discrimination 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z The bill defined caste as "an individual's perceived position in a system of social stratification on the basis of inherited status." Advocates of California bill to ban caste discrimination find veto heartbreaking 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z California's legislation targeted the caste system in South Asian and Hindu immigrant communities by adding caste as a protected class to the state's existing anti-discrimination laws. California governor vetoes bill to ban caste discrimination 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z Some have argued such bill is necessary to explicitly clarify that the state bans caste discrimination. Gov. Newsom vetoes bill banning caste discrimination in the workplace, housing and beyond 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z In February, Seattle became the first U.S. city to outlaw caste discrimination after its local council voted to add caste to the city's anti-discrimination laws. California bill veto is setback in North American fight against caste discrimination 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z “Because discrimination based on caste is already prohibited under these existing categories, this bill is unnecessary,” he said in the statement. California governor vetoes bill that would have banned caste discrimination 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z California's bill targeted the caste system in South Asian and Hindu immigrant communities by adding caste as a protected class to the state's existing anti-discrimination laws. Advocates of California bill to ban caste discrimination find veto heartbreaking 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z Activists opposing caste discrimination said it is no different from other forms of discrimination like racism and hence should be outlawed. California governor vetoes bill to ban caste discrimination 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z Some Hindu groups in California had aggressively pushed back against the bill, calling it “Hinduphobic” and saying people associate caste with Hinduism. Gov. Newsom vetoes bill banning caste discrimination in the workplace, housing and beyond 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z In September, Fresno, California, became only the second U.S. city to ban caste discrimination after a unanimous city council vote. California bill veto is setback in North American fight against caste discrimination 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z “We don’t have a caste system in America or California, so why would we reference it in law, especially if caste and ancestry are already illegal,” he said in a statement. California governor vetoes bill that would have banned caste discrimination 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z The veto from Newsom marks a setback for her and for U.S. activists fighting caste discrimination. Aisha Wahab: author of vetoed California bill to ban caste discrimination 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z Prior to Newsom's veto, the movement to fight the caste system in North America had picked up energy in recent months. California governor vetoes bill to ban caste discrimination 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z “Calling me a caste oppressor is outrageous and vicious,” Sikand said. Gov. Newsom vetoes bill banning caste discrimination in the workplace, housing and beyond 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z Last year, California State University became the first U.S. university system to add caste as a protected category to its anti-discrimination policy. California bill veto is setback in North American fight against caste discrimination 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z While 53% of foreign-born Hindu Indian Americans said they affiliate with a caste group, only 34% of U.S.-born Hindu Indian Americans said they do the same. California governor vetoes bill that would have banned caste discrimination 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z India outlawed caste discrimination over 70 years ago. Aisha Wahab: author of vetoed California bill to ban caste discrimination 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z In California itself, last month, Fresno became only the second U.S. city to ban caste discrimination after a unanimous city council vote. California governor vetoes bill to ban caste discrimination 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z Even though India banned discrimination based on caste decades ago, bias based on the system lingers today, even among the diaspora, advocates have said. Gov. Newsom vetoes bill banning caste discrimination in the workplace, housing and beyond 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z In late 2022, Brown University became the first Ivy League school to add official caste protections, when it added caste to its nondiscrimination policy. California bill veto is setback in North American fight against caste discrimination 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z But irreligious activists don’t just advocate for their specific causes; they have long pushed for other social justice issues like caste and gender equality. Nonreligious struggle to find their voice and place in Indian society and politics 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z Activists opposing caste discrimination say it is no different from other forms of discrimination like racism. Aisha Wahab: author of vetoed California bill to ban caste discrimination 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z As more Indians and South Asians have moved to the U.S., particularly to California and Silicon Valley, some of America's biggest technology companies have also had to confront the issue of caste discrimination. California governor vetoes bill to ban caste discrimination 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z In Fresno, the push for the ban was led at first by Sikh residents, whose religion rejects the idea of castes. In Fresno, Sikhs and Oaxacans unite to pass caste discrimination ban 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z A bill to ban caste discrimination in California was introduced and authored by Democratic state Senator Aisha Wahab, an Afghan American, in March. California bill veto is setback in North American fight against caste discrimination 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z Arulmozhi, who is still an atheist and a feminist, says feminism and fighting inequities perpetrated by the caste system have been central to Periyar’s movement, which continues today. Nonreligious struggle to find their voice and place in Indian society and politics 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z In vetoing the bill, Newsom called it "unnecessary," arguing that since existing laws already banned ancestry discrimination, a separate legislation was not needed explicitly for caste discrimination. Aisha Wahab: author of vetoed California bill to ban caste discrimination 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z The bill defined caste as "an individual’s perceived position in a system of social stratification on the basis of inherited status." California governor vetoes bill to ban caste discrimination 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z But the state caste discrimination bill, SB 403, has provoked outrage from some Hindu residents. In Fresno, Sikhs and Oaxacans unite to pass caste discrimination ban 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z Opposition lawmakers, while being supportive, have demanded that the bill be implemented immediately, with Congress party leaders calling for a caste census to be conducted alongside to ensure reservation for oppressed groups. Indian parliament sets aside 33% of seats for women 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Fighting for justice means facing opposition from religion, culture, caste and everything else the system throws at you, Arulmozhi said. Nonreligious struggle to find their voice and place in Indian society and politics 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z They want a quota for women from backward castes within the overall quota for women to ensure what they say will be a true gender balance. India government presents bill to reserve 3rd of parliament seats for women 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z He has also pledged to "dynamite" the unpopular central bank, take down the political "caste," shrink the government, take a tough line on crime, and has railed against what he calls "woke" behavior. Javier Milei, wielding chainsaw and dollar bill, taps into Argentine voter fury 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z The bill imposes the idea of caste, when Indian Americans are trying to move away from it, he said. In Fresno, Sikhs and Oaxacans unite to pass caste discrimination ban 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z Last week the Legislature passed Senate Bill 403, which would amend the California Fair Employment and Housing Act to prohibit discrimination against employees based on their caste. California workers to get earlier layoff warning under bill sent to Newsom 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z "But some countries have taken things further. To create a caste of people that are excluded and made out to be inferior." Nuzo Onoh - the Queen of African horror who is terrified of ghosts 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z Opponents of the move say reservation for women will only benefit educated and urban women and deprive their disadvantaged rural counterparts from so-called backward castes. India government presents bill to reserve 3rd of parliament seats for women 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z "The political caste is afraid," he yelled in La Plata. Javier Milei, wielding chainsaw and dollar bill, taps into Argentine voter fury 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z “When we came from India, we don’t have the caste anywhere represented in our identity cards or in our passports or in our degrees,” Vale said. In Fresno, Sikhs and Oaxacans unite to pass caste discrimination ban 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z The caste discrimination bill was in part prompted by allegations that an engineer at Cisco’s San Jose headquarters faced discrimination because he is a Dalit Indian. California workers to get earlier layoff warning under bill sent to Newsom 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z "There's a full-scale assault on democratic institutions...of course minorities are under attack, but so are other communities...tribals, lower caste communities," he said. On G20 summit eve, India's Rahul Gandhi says democratic institutions under attack 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z California's legislature has become the first in the US to approve a bill banning caste discrimination. California is first US state to pass ban on caste discrimination 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Newsom, a Democrat, is expected to sign the bill outlawing discrimination based on a person’s caste background. California about to be first state to ban caste discrimination 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z In Fresno, there was little opposition to the city caste discrimination measure, which passed 6 to 0. In Fresno, Sikhs and Oaxacans unite to pass caste discrimination ban 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z Worker termites feed other castes digested food in a process called trophallaxis. Beetle grows ‘termite’ on back to steal food 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z India has banned caste discrimination since 1948, the year after it won independence from Great Britain. California lawmakers vote to become first state to ban caste-based discrimination 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Seattle became the first US city to ban caste discrimination in February. California is first US state to pass ban on caste discrimination 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z California lawmakers contend that caste culture continues to govern interpersonal relations within groups originating in South Asia. California about to be first state to ban caste discrimination 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z On Thursday, Arias and his council colleagues voted to make Fresno the first city in California to ban discrimination based on caste or Indigenous heritage, while a similar bill sits on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. In Fresno, Sikhs and Oaxacans unite to pass caste discrimination ban 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z California's legislation targets the caste system in South Asian immigrant communities by adding caste to the list of categories protected under the state's anti-discrimination laws. California moves closer to historic caste discrimination ban 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z In recent years, South Asians have been pushing for caste protections on the U.S. California lawmakers vote to become first state to ban caste-based discrimination 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Some Hindu groups argued the caste system is not a serious issue in North America. California is first US state to pass ban on caste discrimination 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z This spurred them to add caste to protection regarding a person’s ancestry. California about to be first state to ban caste discrimination 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z The racist audio leak in L.A. and the passage of a caste discrimination ban in Seattle inspired the two groups to push for the Fresno ordinance. In Fresno, Sikhs and Oaxacans unite to pass caste discrimination ban 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z The movement to fight the caste system in North America has picked up energy in recent months. California moves closer to historic caste discrimination ban 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z Many major U.S. colleges and universities have added caste to their non-discrimination policies, including the University of California and California State University systems. California lawmakers vote to become first state to ban caste-based discrimination 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z “That remains the case today, with many farmworkers being treated as a separate caste,” he said. It’s nearly impossible for WA farmworkers to unionize. Here’s why that matters 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z One of the five, Sen. Shannon Grove, a Republican, said caste is too broadly defined and could lead people to wrongly judge South Asians. California about to be first state to ban caste discrimination 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z A majority of the marriages in India are still arranged by families, who choose partners within the same caste and community. Made In Heaven: A show taking on all that's wrong with Indian weddings 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z The caste system is among the world's oldest forms of rigid social stratification. California moves closer to historic caste discrimination ban 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z In February, Seattle became the first U.S. city to ban discrimination based on caste. California lawmakers vote to become first state to ban caste-based discrimination 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Then, Dr. Ghosh referenced the hierarchical caste structure in his native India. When Hackers Descended to Test A.I., They Found Flaws Aplenty 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z Some Hindu groups contend that laws targeting caste are a broadside against their community, given the historical association between Hinduism and the caste system. California about to be first state to ban caste discrimination 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z Her in-laws are proud of her academic achievements, but not of her caste, while her liberal-minded husband is so blinded by his privilege that he's unable to see how his own family might be casteist. Made In Heaven: A show taking on all that's wrong with Indian weddings 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z It dates back thousands of years and allows many privileges to upper castes but represses lower castes. California moves closer to historic caste discrimination ban 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z Tuesday, the state Senate voted 31-5 to approve a bill that would redefine “ancestry” to include “lineal descent, heritage, parentage, caste, or any inherited social status.” California lawmakers vote to become first state to ban caste-based discrimination 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Speaking after the primary on Sunday he told his cheering supporters that "we have managed to build this competitive alternative that will put an end to the parasitic, thieving, useless political caste". Javier Milei: Trump admirer leads race for Argentina presidency 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z Other South Asian groups have applauded the move, particularly those representing groups at the bottom of caste hierarchies such as the Dalits. California about to be first state to ban caste discrimination 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z |
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