Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Center for Contemporary South Asia

Textures of Discrimination: Race, Caste, and Everyday Feelings of Exclusion

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

4:00pm – 6:00pm

Barus & Holley 161

Pashington Obeng, Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College
'We're Here': Siddi (African Indian) Status & Self-definition in India

A.F. Mathew, Assocoate Professor of Humanities and Liberal Arts in Management I.I.M Kozhikode
Caste in the Indian Sucontinent: A system of Exclusion

How do the violences of race and caste "speak" in the everyday? How might they speak to each other?

*Sponsored by Africana Studies, Anthropology, the Dean of the Faculty's Leadership Fund, and the Center for Contemporary South Asia