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""As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not." In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched...
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AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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The harrowing true story of one mans life inand subsequent escape fromNorth Korea, one of the worlds most brutal totalitarian regimes. Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family moved from Japan to North Korea when Ishikawa was just thirteen years old, and unwittingly became members of the lowest social caste. His father, himself a Korean national,...
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North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Soundararajan ties discrimination toward the Dalit in South Asia and America to the experiences of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, femme, and Queer communities, examining caste from a feminist, abolitionist, and Dalit Buddhist perspective. This book includesembodiment exercises, reflections, and meditations to help readers explore their own relationship to caste and marginalization"--
"For readers of Caste and Radical Dharma, an urgent call to action...
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Decal
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[2024]
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English
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While grappling with tremendous personal tragedy, Isabel sets herself on a path of global discovery. Despite the colossal scope of her project, she finds beauty and bravery while crafting one of the defining American books of our time.
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Simon & Schuster
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2013.
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English
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When Ram and Tulsi fall in love, the young woman's parents are dead set against the union. She's from a high-caste family. He's an Untouchable, from the lowest stratum of Indian society. Fortunately, India's Love Commandos, a group of volunteers dedicated to helping mixed-caste couples, come to the rescue. Just after they liberate Tulsi, Ram is mysteriously snatched from his hiding place. It falls to Vish Puri to track down Ram and reunite the star-crossed...
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Mira Books
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℗2015.
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English
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1870s India. In a tiny village where society is ruled by a caste system and women are defined solely by marriage, young Biren Roy dreams of forging a new destiny. When his mother suffers the fate of widowhood--shunned by her loved ones and forced to live in solitary penance--Biren devotes his life to effecting change. Just when his vision for the future begins to look hopeless, he meets Maya, the independent-minded daughter of a local educator,...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"The stunning true story of an untouchable family who become teachers, and one, a poet and revolutionary. Like one in six people in India, Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable. While most untouchables are illiterate, her family was educated by Canadian missionaries in the 1930s, making it possible for Gidla to attend elite schools and move to America at the age of twenty-six. It was only then that she saw how extraordinary--and yet how typical--her...
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