Catalog Search Results
1) Caste
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this young adult adaptation of the Oprah Book Club selection and New York Times bestselling nonfiction work, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson explores the unspoken hierarchies that divide us across lines of race and class. Revealing and timely, this work will speak to young people who are engaged more than ever with the world around them, or to anyone who believes in a more just existence for all.
Readers will...
Readers will...
3) Caste
Author
Language
English
Description
In a world where the Corporation controls everything, one girl dares challenge the rules that have forever governed her life… Seventeen-year-old Karis Singh's little brother is dying and the Corporation's Analysis has concluded that he's not worth saving. One thing is stopping her from going into the city and stealing the medicine herself-the tattooed Mark that physically bars her from entering. The only way around that is to get it altered in the...
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
""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...
Author
Language
English
Description
You're Wanted Because the People Deserve Justice. Jimmy Larkin's mouth dried, his armpits dampened, and a nervous twitch tremored through his body. The teacher's reaction was identical to anyone in 2024 who'd received the screen-paralyzing notification known as the Medusa. No initial explanation of your crime; no chance to conceal your guilt from your entire list of contacts or the public domain; nothing to do but accept the fact that someone, somewhere...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Vedic caste system is one of the most well-known aspects of Hindu society—and also one of the most misunderstood. Find out about the ancient Vedic social order (or Varnas), how it structured society, and how numerous inherited social groups (or Jatis) relate to occupation, creating a diverse and complex society.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Caste and Outcast (1923) is an autobiography by Dhan Gopal Mukerji. Published the year after Mukerji moved from San Francisco to New York City, Caste and Outcast is a moving autobiographical narrative from the first Indian writer to gain a popular audience in the United States.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Trace the resistance of the Maya to foreign domination, culminating in the Caste Wars of Yucatan, which pitted native Maya people against the Mexican army and lasted for over half a century, ending in the early 1900s. Although Mexico prevailed, the resistance continues to this day.
Author
Language
English
Description
B.R. Ambedkar's Annihilation of Caste is one of the most important, yet neglected, works of political writing from India. Written in 1936, it is an audacious denunciation of Hinduism and its caste system. Ambedkar, a figure like W.E.B. Du Bois, offers a scholarly critique of Hindu scriptures, scriptures that sanction a rigidly hierarchical and iniquitous social system. The world's best-known Hindu, Mahatma Gandhi, responded publicly to the provocation....
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
As a social institution, caste changed markedly under British colonial rule. First, examine how the British encountered caste and tried to understand it. Then see how caste became significantly linked with the colonial tax revenue system. Take account of the ways in which caste distinctions became more prominent, codified, and pervasive under colonialism.
Author
Language
English
Description
A thrilling tale of political intrigue, love and loss, and the soul-stirring value of friendshipLondon, mid-1930s. Fascism is on the rise. Against the backdrop of political upheaval, two friends-Vernon, a mixed-race Ceylonese postgraduate student, and Saul, a wealthy Jewish intellectual and connoisseur of music-meet regularly for tea at a Lyons' Corner House on Coventry Street. They discuss everything under the sun. Despite their blossoming friendship,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Get the Summary of Isabel Wilkerson's Caste in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.Original book introduction: 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 narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The High-Caste Hindu Woman (1887) is a work of political nonfiction by Pandita Ramabai. Written for an American audience, The High-Caste Hindu Woman was published in Philadelphia while Ramabai was living in the United States as a lecturer for the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Born and raised in India, Ramabai converted to Christianity and dedicated her life to advocating on behalf of impoverished women and children. A fiery orator and true iconoclast,...
Author
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Language
English
Description
Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was one of the most remarkable figures in the 20th century. Born an Untouchable - the lowest element of Indian society deemed to be outside the caste system, and literally 'untouchable' - he rose from abject village poverty to become the architect of the new Constitution of India following its independence from Britain in 1947.
A combination of exceptional talent, hard work and determination, vision and luck took him to...
Author
Language
English
Description
The most famous speech that was never delivered - ANNIHILATION OF CASTE - by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.
Along with his paper, Castes in India: their mechanism, genesis and development!
Combined to form one cohesive audiobook, the way Babasaheb envisioned it.
Acknowledgements:
Rahul Borde for his rendition of Sanskrit Verses that can be heard towards the end of Annihilation of Caste
Audio Engineer: Kevin Cleland
Studio: LA Digital Recording
Finally,...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This work is based on Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, copyright © 2020. Originally published in the United States in hardcover by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC , New York, in 2020"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Practicing Caste attempts a fundamental break from the tradition of caste studies, showing the limits of the historical, sociological, political, and moral categories through which it has usually been discussed. Engaging with the resources that phenomenology, structuralism, and poststructuralism offer to our thinking of the body, Jaaware helps to illuminate the ethical relations that caste entails, especially around its injunctions concerning touching....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sparkling, provocative history of the English in South Asia during Queen Victoria's reign.
Between 1837 and 1901, less than 100,000 Britons at any one time managed an empire of 300 million people spread over the vast area that now includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Burma. How was this possible, and what were these people like? The British administration in India took pride in its efficiency and broad-mindedness, its devotion to duty and...
Didn't find it?
Didn't find it in the Minuteman Library Network? Request it from other Massachusetts library systems.
Can't find what you are looking for? Recommend it to your local library as a future purchase. Suggest a Purchase