Desai’s novel “Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny” brilliantly lays out how new immigrants respond to America’s racial caste system.
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Sonia and Sunny Meet the U.S. Caste System
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Caste in a Multicultural Democracy
To grapple with Wilkerson’s understanding of racism as a caste system, I turn to Langston Hughes, Twain, and Arundhati Roy.
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