Against Stigma: Studies in Caste, Race and Justice Since Durban
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New Perspectives in South Asian History
Book: Author
Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8125036005, 9788125036005
Length
xii+490p., 140x216mm.
Subjects
Historical barriers still inhibit comparative frameworks to map and challenge two of the most odious forms of discrimination―racism and casteism. Both justify themselves on a principle of biological descent; they enable stigma as if it were a natural fact, refusing to see it as deleterious social exclusion. Against Stigma carries fifteen essays that build upon the energies generated in scholarship as a result of the landmark 2001 World Conference ...
