Caste in the United States: Overview of the Civil Rights Movement for Caste Protections
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Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
South Asia Center presents
Caste in the United States: Overview of the Civil Rights Movement for Caste Protections
Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Director of Equality Labs
This talk will explore the history of caste civil rights, urgent cases, and campaigns that Equality Labs is leading around the United States.
About the speaker:
Thenmozhi Soundararajan, a Dalit rights artist, technologist, and theorist. Currently, Thenmozhi is the co-Founder and Executive Director of Equality Labs, a Dalit Civil Rights organization that uses community research, cultural and political organizing, popular education and digital security to build power to end caste apartheid, white supremacy, gender based violence, and religious intolerance.
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology and the Department of Women's and Gender Studies.
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