Brown University now explicitly prohibits discrimination on the basis of caste, joining a number of US colleges and universities in shoring up protections against an ill-understood, insidious form of ...
California could become the first state in the country to officially outlaw caste-based discrimination. If signed by Governor Gavin Newsom by October 14, the revolutionary Senate Bill (SB) No. 403 ...
Like many recent arrivals to California, Prem Pariyar searched for work and a home within communities of fellow immigrants. So when coworkers at a South Asian restaurant in Davis refused to room with ...
California lawmakers have cleared a bill that would explicitly ban caste discrimination in the state, sending it to the governor’s desk for signature. State senators passed a bill on Tuesday that ...
Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Tuesday, Feb. 14. I’m Suhauna Hussain, a reporter on the L.A. Times business desk. I write about issues affecting workers. I have ...
Dr. S. Anandhi, a professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies in India, discussed class division for the lowest class, the Dalits’ and women’s rights in a talk titled, “The Pandemic of ...
(RNS) — In the past several months the drumbeat behind the effort to make “caste” a separate, stand-alone category of discrimination has been growing louder and faster. The latest thump is California ...
In the United States, inequality tends to be framed as an issue of either class, race or both. Consider, for example, criticism that Republicans’ new tax plan is a weapon of “class warfare,” or ...
When a close relative came of marriageable age, his parents enrolled him on a matrimonial phone application to arrange a suitable match (read: same caste), using technology to follow an ancient Indian ...
Like many recent arrivals to California, Prem Pariyar searched for work and a home within communities of fellow immigrants. So when coworkers at a South Asian restaurant in Davis refused to room with ...
This is part four of a four-part series. Read part one, part two and part three. This series was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. A few weeks ago on the campus of Brandeis University ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Prem Pariyar believed he had left caste oppression behind when he moved from Nepal to the United States. Here, he would no longer be targeted as an “untouchable.” But as a restaurant ...
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