HUMANITIES LAB
In 2022-2023, I will be coordinating a Humanities Lab at Claremont McKenna College, sponsored by the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies on the theme 'Caste, Race, and Equality.' Readings and workshops, organised for the students of the Claremont Colleges and for visitors, will address the following topics:
The ways religious missionaries and the colonial state defined caste in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British India
How caste became a term with which to rethink race relations in a formative moment for American sociology in the early twentieth century
The histories of indentured labor in the Americas
The parallels between protest and resistance in Dalit and Black American communities
Civil rights movements and legal/constitutional reform in India and the US
The legacies of caste-based discrimination that persist in diasporic communities