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Race, Caste and Dalit Organizing: A Conversation with K. Satyanarayana

Dalit is the preferred term for the caste-oppressed communities in India formerly known as "untouchable." Prof. Monisha Das Gupta of the Ethnic Studies Department and Prof. S. Shankar of the English Department engage in a wide ranging conversation with K. SATYANARAYANA, a leading Dalit Studies scholar and anti-caste activist, about "race" and "caste" as social categories, the histories of engagement with these categories in the United States, India and globally for social mobilization, and the state of Dalit organizing for liberation in the past and at present in India and elsewhere. The event will begin with introductory remarks by K. Satyanarayana, following which Profs. Das Gupta and Shankar will engage him in a conversation before moving to questions from the audience. K. Satyanarayana is Professor and former Dean, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad (India). Most recently, he is co-editor (with S. Shankar) of Touchable/Untouchable: Dalit Literature from India in Translation (special issue of ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ journal) and (with Joel Lee) of Concealing Caste: Narratives of Passing and Personhood in Dalit Literature (Oxford UP). He co-editor of important critical collections such as Dalit Studies (Duke University Press, 2016) and Dalit Text: Aesthetics and Politics Reimagined (Routledge, 2019); and of groundbreaking anthologies of Dalit literature translated into English from other Indian languages such as From Those Stubs Steel Nibs Are Sprouting (Harper Collins) and No Alphabet in Sight (Penguin). He is also the author of about twenty essays on Dalit literature, caste politics, literary studies in India, and related topics. This event is made possible with the support of the Rama Watumull Collaborative Lecture Series of the Center for South Asian Studies and the Department of English

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