Book

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

Call Number

  • 305.5688 S7242 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Berkeley, California : North Atlantic Books, [2022]

Physical Description

xxiii, 270 pages : forms ; 23 cm

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"--

Contents

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

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