When Norma L. Day-Vines, associate dean for faculty development at the Johns Hopkins School of Education, was charged with coming up with ways to engage faculty and staff in the issues of diversity ...

In November 2020, the DEI Shared Interest Group’s (SIG’s) book club read Isabel Wilkerson’s book, “Caste: The Origins of our Discontents.” Wilkerson’s book is about how brutal misperceptions about ...

In March 2008, Barack Obama’s presidential campaign nearly imploded when reporters revealed that his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., regularly blasted the United States as irredeemably racist. “[The ...

The Department of South Asia Studies hosted authors and editors Ramnarayan Rawat and Kusuma Satyanarayana to discuss their latest work, "Dalit Journeys for Dignity: Religion, Freedom, and Caste." At ...

Three-quarters of the way into Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson describes the humiliation suffered by Black passengers on a steamship in the American South before the Civil War.

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. A critic shouldn’t often deal in superlatives. He or she is here to explicate, to expand context and ...

Chasing Dignity, the captivating novel by Rachhpal Sahota, recently ignited a dynamic discussion that brought together a diverse group of prominent readers ...

The book edited and translated by Nikhil Pandhi, ‘Love in the Times of Caste’, was launched at Delhi’s Gulmohar Club. It ...

Prior to a community screening of the film, "Origin" (Ava DuVernay) at the Showroom at the Colonial Theater on Wednesday, April 17 there will be two discussions of the book "Caste". The film is based ...

IIT-Delhi's third edition of 'Critical Philosophy of Caste and Race' has led to the formation of a committee that would 'investigate serious concerns raised about the conference'.