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

Soundararajan, Thenmozhi,

The trauma of caste : a dalit feminist meditation on survivorship, healing, and abolition / Thenmozhi Soundararajan ; foreword by Tarana Burke ; afterword by Dr. Cornel West. - xxiii, 270 pages : forms ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- Love in a time of genocide. Introduction: Conclusion:

"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"--

9781623177652 1623177650

2022018824

GBC2H5938 bnb

020765181 Uk


Caste--India.
Dalit women--Social conditions.--India
Feminist theory--India.
Intersectionality (Sociology)--India.
Marginality, Social--India.

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