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The trauma of caste : a dalit feminist meditation on survivorship, healing, and abolition /

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 meditati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Soundararajan, Thenmozhi (Author)
Other Authors: Burke, Tarana (author of foreword.), West, Cornel (author of afterword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, California : North Atlantic Books, [2022].
Subjects:
Caste > India.
Dalit women > India > Social conditions.
Feminist theory > India.
Intersectionality (Sociology) > India.
Marginality, Social > India.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
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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.
Physical Description:xxiii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781623177652
1623177650