SAYHU community members have been thinking about and talking about caste. Given what we know and what we are learning about caste in our own communities, many of us have started reading Isabel Wilkerson's new book on the topic - or have been seeking accountability to do so.

We plan to start our discussion of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents this Martin Luther King Jr. Day. We continue a conversation that SAYHU is engaged and committed to in and around South Asian identity and experience and anti-Blackness, and we are seeking broad perspectives for a black and South Asian conversation about this text.

Join us for a discussion of the first sections of this book (and other related sources), as we mark this important holiday. Connect with us on this event page and share online resources related to caste, social justice, and the US history of struggle that Wilkerson explores and that MLK represents.

For more about the book, check out this review by Anupama Rao: https://lareviewofbooks.org/.../the-work-of-analogy-on.../

Come be part of the conversation, no matter how much of the text you've had a chance to read! *We'll share a Zoom link for this event on Facebook the morning of the event.