The Trauma of Caste
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For readers of Caste and Radical Dharma, an urgent call to action to end caste apartheid, grounded in Dalit feminist abolition and engaged Buddhism.
Dalit is the name that we chose for ourselves when Brahminism declared us untouchable. Dalit means broken. Broken by suffering. Broken by caste: the worlds oldest, longest-running dominator system...yet although Dalit means broken, it also means resilient.
Casteone of the oldest systems of exclusion in the worldis 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., tooerupting online with rape and death threats, showing up at work, and forcing countless Dalits to live in fear of being outed.
Dalit American activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan puts forth a call to awaken and act, not just for readers in South Asia, but all around the world. She ties Dalit oppression to fights for liberation among Black, Indigenous, Latinx, femme, and Queer communities, examining caste from a feminist, abolitionist, and Dalit Buddhist perspective--and laying bare the grief, trauma, rage, and stolen futures enacted by Brahminical social structures on the caste-oppressed.
Soundararajans work includes embodiment exercises, reflections, and meditations to help readers explore their own relationship to caste and marginalizationand to step into their power as healing activists and changemakers. She offers skills for cultivating wellness within dynamics of false separation, sharing how both oppressor and oppressed can heal the wounds of caste and transform collective suffering. Incisive and urgent, The Trauma of Caste is an activating beacon of healing and liberation, written by one of the worlds most needed voices in the fight to end caste apartheid.
For readers of Caste and Radical Dharma, an urgent call to action to end caste apartheid, grounded in Dalit feminist abolition and engaged Buddhism.
Dalit is the name that we chose for ourselves when Brahminism declared us untouchable. Dalit means broken. Broken by suffering. Broken by caste: the worlds oldest, longest-running dominator system...yet although Dalit means broken, it also means resilient.
Casteone of the oldest systems of exclusion in the worldis 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., tooerupting online with rape and death threats, showing up at work, and forcing countless Dalits to live in fear of being outed.
Dalit American activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan puts forth a call to awaken and act, not just for readers in South Asia, but all around the world. She ties Dalit oppression to fights for liberation among Black, Indigenous, Latinx, femme, and Queer communities, examining caste from a feminist, abolitionist, and Dalit Buddhist perspective--and laying bare the grief, trauma, rage, and stolen futures enacted by Brahminical social structures on the caste-oppressed.
Soundararajans work includes embodiment exercises, reflections, and meditations to help readers explore their own relationship to caste and marginalizationand to step into their power as healing activists and changemakers. She offers skills for cultivating wellness within dynamics of false separation, sharing how both oppressor and oppressed can heal the wounds of caste and transform collective suffering. Incisive and urgent, The Trauma of Caste is an activating beacon of healing and liberation, written by one of the worlds most needed voices in the fight to end caste apartheid.
Auteur | | Thenmozhi Soundararajan |
Taal | | Engels |
Type | | Paperback |
Categorie | | Mens & Maatschappij |