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The trauma of caste : a dalit feminist meditation on survivorship, healing, and abolition / Thenmozhi Soundararajan ; foreword by Tarana Burke ; afterword by Dr. Cornel West.

Van Pelt Library HT720 .S665 2022
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Soundararajan, Thenmozhi, author.
Burke, Tarana, author of foreword.
West, Cornel, author of afterword.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Caste--India.
Caste.
Dalit women--India--Social conditions.
Dalit women.
Feminist theory--India.
Feminist theory.
Intersectionality (Sociology)--India.
Intersectionality (Sociology).
Marginality, Social--India.
Marginality, Social.
Dalit women--Social conditions.
India.
Physical Description:
xxiii, 270 pages : illustrations, forms ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Berkeley, California : North Atlantic Books, [2022]
Summary:
"Soundararajan ties discrimination toward the Dalit in South Asia and America to the experiences of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, femme, and Queer communities, examining caste from a feminist, abolitionist, and Dalit Buddhist perspective. This book includes embodiment exercises, reflections, and meditations to help readers explore their own relationship to caste and marginalization"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction: The wound as teacher
Meditation 1 : the existence of caste
Meditation II : the source of caste
Meditation III : from wounds to liberation
Meditation IV : the end of caste
Conclusion: Love in a time of genocide.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-258) and index.
Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature - Adult Non-Fiction, Honor, 2023-2024
Other Format:
Online version: Soundararajan, Thenmozhi. Trauma of caste
ISBN:
9781623177652
1623177650
OCLC:
1298936321

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