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Isabel Wilkerson’s 2020 nonfiction book “Caste” is a sort of biography of an idea, and an elusive idea at that. Americans tend to be pretty literate about race and class. Caste? Not so much, at least ...

“You can’t be walking around at night, on a white street, and not expect trouble.” Author Isabel Wilkerson’s mother has likely said something like this before, in one of any number of tragic contexts.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Isabel Wilkerson’s “Caste,” an acclaimed biography of Malcolm X and fiction by Martin Amis and the late Randall Kenan are among this year’s finalists for National Book Critics Circle ...

Caste census has been a consistent demand of the Socialist parties of different hues and OBC organisations in the country ever since the rise of the Mandal movement. The scholarly debate on caste ...

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

Can people survive if people prefer something other than people? Can you survive if you, as a person, or your type of people, are disfavored? The answer, of course, is no—and yet we have this kind of ...

Shailaja Paik was born into India’s Dalit community — one of the millions who belong to historically marginalized and oppressed castes due to their professions. They’re so scorned that they were for ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." At work on her third YA novel, Williams kicked her pandemic nail-biting habit with Woo Me Nail Biter Pen ...