Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Chris Rock's 2008 comedy special, "Kill the Messenger," he discusses the limited diversity in his affluent neighborhood in ...

Listen to John Agard read his well known poem Half Caste and talk about how his Guyanan upbringing helped him become the writer he is today It was a mega treat to have John Agard in the Guardian ...

Booker Prize winner and activist-author Arundhati Roy was recently in London to launch her new book called The Doctor and the Saint, except, it’s not entirely her book. Roy has written an introduction ...

Isabel Wilkerson's book 'Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents' uses anecdotes and allegory to advance her thesis, which however does not stand on a strong structural foundation. This article went ...

Oprah Winfrey has announced that "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" by Isabel Wilkerson is not only her latest pick for Oprah's Book Club, but that it "might be the most important book" she has ...

Annihilation of Caste is probably Dr Ambedkar’s most considered statement on the caste issue and its implications for Hindu society and India. It is very probably also the most thoughtful and most ...

A caste is a ranking, an order, a top to bottom accounting. The concept of caste — not unlike class, though different in important ways — is thousands of years old, its roots can be inextricable, its ...

“Caste is the infrastructure of our divisions,” Isabel Wilkerson writes in Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Caste is like the bones of an old house, “the studs and joists that we cannot see in ...