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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oprah Winfrey will have ...

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

The tendency in this moment, as in many others, is to speak of India as a unitary society. Of course it is not, and the largest share of those writing, posting, and reading about Black Lives Matter ...

Ava DuVernay will adapt a new feature film for Netflix based on the nonfiction book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.” The book, written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Isabel Wilkerson, examines race ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - "An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far."--Dwight Garner, The New York ...

Anand Teltumbde mines data and history to analyse the narrow framing, as well as futility, of a caste census in his new book ...