(RNS) — This January, California State University, the largest public university system in the United States, added caste to the anti-discrimination policy in its faculty collective bargaining ...

Wilkerson, a Pulitzer Prize-winner, is the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, from which this essay is adapted; ...

If we stand next to one another, Thenmozhi Soundararajan and I look alike. We both have Indian immigrant roots and are the products of marriages between Hindu fathers and Christian mothers. We share ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday vetoed a bill highly watched by the South Asian community that would have banned discrimination on the basis of caste — a system of social hierarchy that ...

Nearly 5.4 million South Asians live in the U.S., most of whom trace their roots to Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan or Sri Lanka, according to the group South Asian Americans Leading ...

Seattle is the first American city to protect people against discrimination based on caste. California could become the first state. Seattle, as we have reported, is the first American city to protect ...

CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, Vol. 1, No. 1, THE PERSISTENCE OF CASTE (February 2020), pp. 200-216 (17 pages) Exploring the contingencies and paradoxes shaping the idealism/materialism ...

BENGALURU: Karnataka Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot expressed concerns over including Christian identifiers like “Kumbara Christian” and “Kuruba Christian” in the caste survey starting from Monday and ...

Amid a clamour by caste groups to club all sub-castes together ahead of the enumeration for the socio-educational survey being undertaken by the Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes from ...

MAHARASHTRA, India (RNS) — In 2018, India’s Supreme Court recognized honor killing as a serious problem and issued guidelines to prevent it, including setting up safe houses. MAHARASHTRA, India (RNS) ...