Stigmabase | North America

Does America have a caste system? -  In the mid-20th century, the American anthropologist Gerald Berreman returned home from fieldwork in India as the civil rights movement was getting underway. His 1960 essay, “Caste in India and the United States,” concluded that towns in the Jim Crow South bore enough similarity to the North Indian ...

Does America have a caste system? - the United States, inequality tends to be framed as an issue of either class, race or both. Consider, for example, criticism that Republicans' new tax ...