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Podcast: New Books in Caribbean Studies
Episode: Suraj Milind Yengde, "Caste: A Global Story" (Hurst, 2025)
Description: Caste has been a huge topic of conversation in modern India. Yet debates and activism around caste discrimination have spread beyond South Asia. Caste activists looked to African-American literature and leaders to connect their fight with the battle against racism in the U.S. And as Indians moved around the world–to America, to elsewhere in Asia, and to the Middle East–they way they thought about caste changed.
Suraj Milind Yengde tackles this global angle in his latest book: Caste: A Global Story (Hurst, 2025)
Suraj is Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies and a Ford...