Race as a political frontier against caste: WCAR, Dalits and India’s foreign policy

Berg, Dag-Erik

doi:10.1057/s41268-017-0091-3

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“…Dalit activists initially discussed whether to include exploited people on a global scale; commonalities between discrimination based on caste and race lead toward interactions with the Black Power movement in the United States (Slate 2012). However, the Dalit initiative to include caste in the Durban Declaration of 2001 against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance was rejected by the Indian Government (Berg 2018). Scholars, artists, and activists currently develop creative actions to eradicate caste, such as the transmedia project Dalit Nation and the Ambedkarist PEP Collective…”

Section: Caste and Dalitsmentioning

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At Dalits’ Feet: Archival Resources of Counteraction

Laine¹

2020

Visual Anthropology Review

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Dalits’ bodies are archives of structural violence and discrimination based on caste. Through a process‐based notion of the archive, and close attention to Dalit counterforces, the current artistic–anthropological project addresses potentials for increased epistemic and social justice. This article reflects upon collaborative photographic inquiries of casteism during fieldwork within Tamil communities, analyzed through the concept “body as archive” and curated into the exhibition At Dalits’ Feet. This article demonstrates how a critical and multisensorial approach, in front of the camera and in the gallery, can challenge and refigure Dalit experiences and memories of casteism archived in both collective and individual bodies.

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Section: Caste and Dalitsmentioning

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At Dalits’ Feet: Archival Resources of Counteraction

Laine¹

2020

Visual Anthropology Review

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Caste and two types of status. Comparing Dumont and Weber for studies of caste today

Berg

2023

Contemporary South Asia

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The Laboratory of Scientific Racism: India and the Origins of Anthropology

Weaver

2022

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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Anthropology, especially biological anthropology, owes its origins to the scientific study of human racial differences. That dark history is well-acknowledged and, when it is taught, usually begins with the racism of early figures, such as Johann Friedrich Blumenbach or, more recently, Ernest Hooton, and exonerates itself through a turn toward antiracist scholars such as Frank Livingstone and Franz Boas. Rarely, if ever, is this origin story critically appraised. This article aims to complicate the origin story of biological anthropology by examining how colonial subjects were involved in the development, testing, and refinement of racial theory, and thus of biological anthropology itself. Taking India as an example, I trace how Indians and the caste system were first the subjects and eventually the interlocutors of racial scientific theory and testing. This reorientation, I argue, is important for developing a more expansive and accurate version of the discipline's history and also for shining a light on its relevance to contemporary global racial conflict. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Anthropology Volume 51 is October 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Race as a political frontier against caste: WCAR, Dalits and India’s foreign policy

Cited by 3 publications

References 38 publications

At Dalits’ Feet: Archival Resources of Counteraction

At Dalits’ Feet: Archival Resources of Counteraction

Caste and two types of status. Comparing Dumont and Weber for studies of caste today

The Laboratory of Scientific Racism: India and the Origins of Anthropology

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