Caste systems in Africa are a form of social stratification found in numerous ethnic groups, found in over fifteen countries, particularly in the Sahel...

A caste is a fixed social group into which an individual is born within a particular system of social stratification: a caste system. Within such a system...

The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic instance of social classification based on castes. It has its origins in ancient India, and...

integral to the Indian caste system. It developed as a result of relations between the foreign conquerors and local upper caste Hindus who were forced...

Random House. The book describes racism in the United States as an aspect of a caste system—a society-wide system of social stratification characterized...

casta, meaning race. Terms such as half-caste, caste, quarter-caste and mix-breed were used by colonial officials in the British Empire during their classification...

use of the term caste is more prevalent in South Asia and Bali, in the United States, Indian Americans also use the term caste. Caste is not officially...

The caste system in the Maldives is the social stratification system found among the ethnic groups of the island. The history of the stratification of...

communities. The role that castes play in India's political system was institutionalised by the British colonists where upper-caste dominance within government...

the historic artisan castes in West Africa, particularly among the Tuareg people. Sometimes referred to as an endogamous caste and sometimes as endogamous...

had the most stratified caste system in Africa (...)" Gwyn Campbell (2013). Abolition and Its Aftermath in the Indian Ocean Africa and Asia. Routledge. pp...

word caste during the early modern period, which was applied to the rigid social hierarchy in India. However, the system of racial hierarchy in India...

society to society. In modern societies, strict legal links between ethnicity and class have been drawn, such as the caste system in Africa, apartheid, the...

are a caste living in the Amhara region along the shore of Lake Tana in northern Ethiopia. They worship the Nile River. They currently live in Bahir Dar...

West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso...

India, and the United States to research the caste systems in each country's history. Origin premiered in competition at the 80th Venice International...

Kapu is a Hindu caste mainly found in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. They are classified as a Forward caste. They are a community of land-owning agriculturists...

(2010) and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020). She is the first woman of African-American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism....

anti-caste social reformer and writer from Maharashtra. His work extended to many fields, including eradication of untouchability and the caste system and...

West African lute said to have originated among the Senufo hunters of Burkina Faso. Dozo en Cote d'Ivoire Donzo au Mali Donzo en Guinée Caste system in Africa...

tending. The Zarma people have had a history of slave and caste systems, like many West African ethnic groups. Like them, they also have had a historical...

historically been widespread in Africa. Systems of servitude and slavery were common in parts of Africa in ancient times, as they were in much of the rest of the...

ISBN 978-0-253-01605-8. Tamari, Tal (1991). "The Development of Caste Systems in West Africa". The Journal of African History. 32 (2). Cambridge University Press: 221–250...

especially South African English: /əˈpɑːrt(h)eɪt/ ə-PART-(h)ayt, Afrikaans: [aˈpartɦɛit] ; transl. "separateness", lit. 'aparthood') was a system of institutionalised...

racial category for a mixed-race person used in Mexican paintings illustrating the caste (casta) system in 17th- and 18th-century Spanish America. Lobo...

who strictly respect this system although they publicly deny its existence in Mauritius. What is now knows as the Vaish caste in Mauritius is a relatively...

Nyamakala, or Nyamakalaw, are the historic occupational castes among Islamic societies of West Africa, particularly among the Mandinka people. The Nyamakala...

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Dolores Richter, the caste systems in Africa found among Senufo people features "hierarchical ranking including despised lower castes, occupational specificity...

differentiation and segregation between Indian castes population is much smaller than those found in east Asia, Africa and other continental populations; while...