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The Trauma of Caste

A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition

by Thenmozhi Soundararajan
Tarana Burke
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For readers of Caste and Radical Dharma, an urgent call to action to end caste apartheid, grounded in Dalit feminist abolition and engaged Buddhism.
“Dalit” is the name that we chose for ourselves when Brahminism declared us “untouchable.” Dalit means broken. Broken by suffering. Broken by caste: the world’s oldest, longest-running dominator system...yet although “Dalit” means broken, it also means resilient.
    Caste—one of the oldest systems of exclusion in the world—is thriving. Despite the ban on Untouchability 70 years ago, caste impacts 1.9 billion people in the world. Every 15 minutes, a crime is perpetrated against a Dalit person. The average age of death for Dalit women is just 39. And the wreckages of caste are replicated here in the U.S., too—erupting online with rape and death threats, showing up at work, and forcing countless Dalits to live in fear of being outed.
    Dalit American activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan puts forth a call to awaken and act, not just for readers in South Asia, but all around the world. She ties Dalit oppression to fights for liberation among Black, Indigenous, Latinx, femme, and Queer communities, examining caste from a feminist, abolitionist, and Dalit Buddhist perspective—and laying bare the grief, trauma, rage, and stolen futures enacted by Brahminical social structures on the caste-oppressed.
    Soundararajan’s work includes embodiment exercises, reflections, and meditations to help readers explore their own relationship to caste and marginalization—and to step into their power as healing activists and changemakers. She offers skills for cultivating wellness within dynamics of false separation, sharing how both oppressor and oppressed can heal the wounds of caste and transform collective suffering. Incisive and urgent, The Trauma of Caste is an activating beacon of healing and liberation, written by one of the world’s most needed voices in the fight to end caste apartheid.

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    November 15, 2022

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      October 1, 2022

      Dalit American Soundararajan, the executive director of Equality Labs, the Dalit civil rights organization, explores caste discrimination in India through the lens of trauma. Dalit is the lowest social group in India's caste hierarchy. Soundararajan calls for abolition of the caste system and explores the life of a caste-oppressed person, drawing on her own story and that of her family. She also documents the origins of the caste system in India, with special emphasis on religious and legal codes, and depicts the many ways it pervades institutional and social systems in India. Throughout the book, she also emphasizes the common struggle between the Dalit and Black communities in the United States. This account includes extensive appendices that present biographies of prominent Dalit caste-abolitionists, a summary of Buddhist traditions, a comparison of relevant data on caste in South Asian countries, worksheets to guide readers in recognizing their own biases regarding social classes, a series of somatic exercises to aid readers in navigating their own trauma responses to it, and a glossary of key terms. VERDICT An important account of caste discrimination.--Rebekah Kati

      Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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