0617168 - FLÚ 2025 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Holmwood, John
Race, caste and colonialism.
Current Sociology. Roč. 72, č. 7 (2024), s. 1245-1252. ISSN 0011-3921. E-ISSN 1461-7064
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : race * caste * colonialism * Oliver Cromwell Cox
OECD category: Sociology
Impact factor: 1.9, year: 2023 ; AIS: 1.045, rok: 2023
Method of publishing: Limited access
Result website:
https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921241275689DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921241275689

This article addresses Oliver Cromwell Cox’s criticisms of the application of the concept of caste to understand race relations in the southern states of the Unite States. It proposes that there are deep similarities in the experiences of Dalits in India and Blacks in the United States, but argues that these derive from the modern construction of caste and race in the conjunction of colonialism and capitalism. In each case, the problems do not derive from the resilience of ‘pre-modern’ social structures, but from modern structures of colonialism that continue in the post-civil war United States and post-independence India. They are problems of democracy, not problems to be solved by the application of democratic values.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0364134