There are about 2.5 million people of Indian descent living in the United States today. While India’s rich food and dance are celebrated in America, the caste system which Indian emigrants came from ...

(RNS) — Nearly a decade ago, a newly migrated Karthikeyan Shanmugam, an IT engineer from Tamil Nadu, in southern India, was puzzled, to say the least, at the caste conversations among the Hindus he ...

Ava DuVernay will host a special centered on the caste in America that will debut on ABC owned TV stations and Hulu later this month, TheWrap can reveal exclusively. Drawing from themes of caste ...

Underscoring the backwards meaning of “Make America Great Again,” the Trump administration is touting the president’s executive order terminating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in ...

Since Bill Clinton, Democratic identity politics has challenged racial and gender caste power while focusing far less on class power. Harris needs to recapture the spirit of the New Deal, when ...

Based on Isabel Wilkerson's book Caste, DuVernay's film draws a line between India's caste system, the hierarchies of Nazi Germany and the... With 'Origin,' Ava DuVernay illuminates America's racial ...

I swear, every time I hear Newt Gingrich spout off, I think of the brilliant 2020 book by Isabel Wilkerson, about the eight core beliefs that uphold a caste system. The pillar of “inherent superiority ...

Lunch outdoors at a fine restaurant with a charming and well-spoken guest perhaps would seem an unlikely place to think about the intricate relationship between the caste system, a global pandemic and ...

To the Editor: Throughout history, no matter the type of economic or political arrangements, human greed has usually tried to game the system for creating and distributing wealth. Thus, people got ...

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