Does America have a caste system?
- Written by Subramanian Shankar, Professor of English (Postoclonial Literature and Creative Writing), University of Hawaii
In 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 plan is a weapon of “class warfare,” or accusations that the recent U.S. government shutdown was racist.
As an India-born novelist and scholar who teaches in the United States,...