RESEARCH FOCUS GROUP TALK: RACE, CASTE, HIERARCHY, DIFFERENCE: REFLECTIONS ON ISABEL WILKERSON’S CASTE

FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 2021 - 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM - ONLINE

Presented by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.

In this talk Vincent Wimbush, professor at Claremont Graduate University, will interrogate the ways in which the categories of race, caste, hierarchy, and difference coincide, collide, and collude in Isabel Wilkerson’s work, reflecting out of his own studies of the ways in which Black communities in the United States have historically negotiated meaning and power through engaging, resisting, and transgressing the sociocultural formations woven around racializing regimes of signification. Amit Ahuja will respond to Wimbush’s talk and will reflect on Wilkerson’s book from the perspective of his studies of the processes of inclusion and exclusion at work in caste hierarchies, ethnic politics, and racialized subaltern groups in India.

This event is free and takes place on Zoom.