The Trauma of Caste av Thenmozhi Soundararajan

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<b>Instant Amazon Best Seller and Hot New Release<br><br>For readers of <i>Caste</i> and <i>Radical Dharma</i>, an urgent call to action to end caste apartheid, grounded in Dalit feminist abolition and engaged Buddhism.</b><br><br><i>“Dalit” is the name that we chose for ourselves when Brahminism declared us “untouchable.” Dalit means broken. Broken by suffering. Broken by caste: the world’s oldest, longest-running dominator system...yet although “Dalit” means broken, it also means resilient.</i><br>    Caste—one of the oldest systems of exclusion in the world—is thriving. Despite the ban on Untouchability 70 years ago, caste impacts 1.9 billion people in the world. Every 15 minutes, a crime is perpetrated against a Dalit person. The average age of death for Dalit women is just 39. And the wreckages of caste are replicated here in the U.S., too—erupting online with rape and death threats, showing up at work, and forc