When: Pop Up Discussion - Monday, January 25th from 5-6:30PM

Where: https://tinyurl.com/BlumCenterPopUp-Caste

Please RSVP through this link: https://tinyurl.com/CastePopUpRSVP

"As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down the aisle, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. It is about POWER - which groups have it and which do not." - Isabel Wilkerson, Caste

Amidst growing national discussions on racial injustice over the past several months, alternative frameworks are being examined to better understand and analyze the depth of racial inequity and discrimination we see in the United States today, including the language of caste. 

On Monday, January 25th the Blum Center is hosting a virtual Pop-Up discussion on award-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson’s book, Caste: The Origins of our Discontents. In Caste, Wilkerson examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped the United States. Linking the Caste systems of the US, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores the key pillars that underlie caste systems and their everyday impacts.

This Pop Up Discussion will feature UCSB Associate Professors, Amit Ahuja (Political Science) and Jean Beaman (Sociology), who will discuss the connections between the caste system in India and in the United States, and related systems of inequality at home and abroad.

Please RSVP to this event by Friday, January 22nd. See the flyer below for more details. You can continue your engagement by attending related events on campus featuring Isabel Wilkerson by UCSB Arts & Lectures and the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program on January 26th and February 2nd.

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Black Studies Research, the Department of Black Studies, the African Diasporic Cultural Resource Center, the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, and the Department of Political Science, Identity Politics Workshop.