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Caste
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When you were talking about the caste system, I was thinking about how Mexicans still have to come to terms with this in our own culture. We spoke earlier about the castas paintings that were made during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Mexico. The Spanish, establishing a form of racial apartheid, delineate the fifty-three categories of racial mixtures between Africans, Indians, and the Spanish. And they have names, like tiente en el aire, which means stain in the air; and salta otras,
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― Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism
― Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism
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Historically, Scheduled Castes comprise communities outside the four-fold varna system, treated as ritually impure and subjected to untouchability and systemic social exclusion.
❝ “The outcastes are those whom the caste Hindus would not touch, let alone allow into their homes or temples.”
— B.R. Ambedkar, What Congress and Gandhi Have Done to the Untouchables (1945)
They were historically denied access to public spaces, education, land ownership, and dignified livelihoods
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