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The trauma of caste : a dalit feminist meditation on survivorship, healing, and abolition / by Soundararajan, Thenmozhi,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."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 includesembodiment exercises, reflections, and meditations to help readers explore their own relationship to caste and marginalization"--
Subjects: Caste; Dalit women; Feminist theory; Intersectionality (Sociology); Marginality, Social; Feminist theory.; Intersectionality.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The braid [large print] / by Colombani, Laetitia,1976-author.(CARDINAL)786659; Lalaurie, Louise Rogers,translator.(CARDINAL)419724;
Three women from very different circumstances around the world find their lives intertwined by a single object and discover what connects them--across cultures, across backgrounds, and across borders. In India, Smita is an untouchable. Desperate to give her daughter an education, she takes her child and flees her small village with nothing but her own resourcefulness. In Sicily, Giulia works in her father's wig workshop, but when her father is the victim of a serious accident, she discovers that the company's financial situation is dire. Now she must find a way to save her family's livelihood. In Canada, Sarah is a successful lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three children. Just as she expects a big promotion, her life is shattered when she's diagnosed with cancer.
Subjects: Fiction.; Large print books.; Dalits; Wigmakers; Women lawyers; Cancer; Women; Individualism; Determination (Personality trait); Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Coming out as Dalit : a memoir of surviving India's caste system / by Dutt, Yashica,author.(CARDINAL)888442;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The Early Years -- The Caste System : How It Began -- Education and Financial Strife -- Humiliation in Mussoorie -- The Reality of Untouchability -- The Long Road to St. Stephen's -- The Argument for Reservation -- Culture Cache and Onward to Columbia -- Dalit Movements and Ambedkar's Legacy -- My Introduction to Ambedkar -- Dalit Women's Movements -- The Danger of the Single Narrative -- Silicon Valley, Model Minority, and the Myth of Caste-lessness -- The Reckoning of Caste in Tech."Born into a "formerly untouchable manual-scavenging family in small-town India," Yashica Dutt was taught from a young age to not appear "Dalit looking." Although prejudice against Dalits, who compose 25% of the population, has been illegal since 1950, caste-ism in India is alive and well. Blending her personal history with extensive research and reporting, Dutt provides an incriminating analysis of caste's influence in India over everything from entertainment to judicial systems and how this discrimination has carried over to US institutions. Published in India in 2019 to acclaim, this expanded edition includes 2 new chapters covering how the caste system traveled to the US, its history here, and the continuation of bias by South Asian communities in professional sectors. Amid growing conversations about caste discrimination prompting US institutions including Harvard University, Brandeis University, the University of California system, and the NAACP to add caste as a protected category to their policies, Dutt's work sheds essential light on the significant influence caste-ism has across many aspects of US society." --"For readers of Caste, the coming-of-age story of a Dalit individual that illuminates systemic injustice in India and its growing impact on U.S. society"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Dutt, Yashica.; Dalit women; Dalits; Dalits; Caste-based discrimination; East Indian Americans;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The braid : a novel / by Colombani, Laetitia,1976-author.(CARDINAL)786659; Lalaurie, Louise Rogers,translator.(CARDINAL)419724;
"Three women from very different circumstances around the world find their lives intertwined by a single object and discover what connects us--across cultures, across backgrounds, and across borders. In India, Smita is an untouchable. Desperate to give her daughter an education, she takes her child and flees her small village with nothing but resourcefulness, eventually heading to a temple where she will experience a rebirth. In Sicily, Giulia works in her father's wig workshop, the last of its kind in Palermo. She washes, bleaches, and dyes the hair provided by the city's hairdressers, which is now in short supply. But when her father is the victim of a serious accident, she discovers that the company's financial situation is dire. Now she must find a way to save her family's livelihood. In Canada, Sarah is a successful lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three children whose identity is wrapped up in her work. Just as she expects a big promotion, her life is shattered when she's diagnosed with cancer"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Fiction.; Cancer; Dalits; Wigmakers; Women lawyers;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Hinduism : a very short introduction / by Knott, Kim.(CARDINAL)758007;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-133) and index.The scholar and the devotee -- Revelation and the transmission of knowledge -- Understanding the self -- Divine heroes: the epic tradition -- The divine presence -- Hinduism, colonialism, and modernity -- Challenges to Hinduism: women and dalits -- Crossing the black waters: Hinduism beyond India -- Hindu dharma, Hinduism, and Hinduisms.1350L
Subjects: Hinduism.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Ants among elephants : an untouchable family and the making of modern India / by Gidla, Sujatha,1963-author.(CARDINAL)344484;
"The stunning true story of an untouchable family who become teachers, and one, a poet and revolutionary. Like one in six people in India, Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable. While most untouchables are illiterate, her family was educated by Canadian missionaries in the 1930s, making it possible for Gidla to attend elite schools and move to America at the age of twenty-six. It was only then that she saw how extraordinary--and yet how typical--her family history truly was. Her mother, Manjula, and uncles Satyam and Carey were born in the last days of British colonial rule. They grew up in a world marked by poverty and injustice, but also full of possibility. In the slums where they lived, everyone had a political side, and rallies, agitations, and arrests were commonplace. The Independence movement promised freedom. Yet for untouchables and other poor and working people, little changed. Satyam, the eldest, switched allegiance to the Communist Party. Gidla recounts his incredible life--how he became a famous poet, student, labor organizer, and founder of a left-wing guerrilla movement. And Gidla charts her mother's battles with caste and women's oppression. Page by page, Gidla takes us into a complicated, close-knit family as they desperately strive for a decent life and a more just society. A moving portrait of love, hardship, and struggle, Ants Among Elephants is also that rare thing: a personal history of modern India told from the bottom up"--Sujatha Gidla -- Sujatha Gidla.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Gidla, Sujatha, 1963-; Gidla, Sujatha, 1963-; Dalits; Families; Teachers; Poets; Revolutionaries; Caste;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Writing with fire [videorecording] / by Mīrā Devī,on-screen participant.; Devi, Shyamkali,on-screen participant.; Ghosh, Sushmit,film director,film producer.; Prajapati, Suneeta,on-screen participant.; Thomas, Rintu,film director,film producer.; Black Ticket Films,presenter.; Music Box Films,publisher.;
Cinematography, Sushmit Ghosh & Karan Thapliyal ; editing, Sushmit Ghosh & Rintu Thomas.Meera Devi, Shyamkali Devi, Suneeta Prajapati.A fearless group of journalists maintain India's only women-led news outlet. All from the Dalit caste, the women of Khabar Lahariya prepare to transition the newspaper from print to digital while fighting for marginalized voices in the world's largest democracy. The film chronicles the astonishing determination of these reporters as they redefine what it means to be powerful.DVD, wide screen, Dolby digital 5.1 or 2.0.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Feature films.; Nonfiction films.; Khabara lahariyā.; Rural journalism; Rural women; Women in journalism; Women in rural development;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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