{"id":53916,"date":"2023-03-16T04:12:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T08:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=53916"},"modified":"2023-03-20T13:11:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T17:11:09","slug":"in-the-news-emu-professor-gaurav-pathania-published-in-boston-globe-interviewed-by-pbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2023\/in-the-news-emu-professor-gaurav-pathania-published-in-boston-globe-interviewed-by-pbs\/","title":{"rendered":"In the News: EMU professor Gaurav Pathania published in Boston Globe, interviewed by PBS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gaurav J. Pathania, professor of sociology and peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University, has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2023\/02\/17\/opinion\/caste-should-not-be-part-american-dream\/\">published in The Boston Globe<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/nation\/why-seattle-banned-caste-discrimination\">interviewed by PBS NewsHour<\/a> for his activism and expertise regarding caste systems and discrimination.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both his article and interview speak to the&nbsp;February milestone of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2023\/02\/21\/seattle-caste-discrimination-ban\/\">Seattle becoming the first US city to ban caste discrimination<\/a>, with the ordinance passing by large majority in the City Council. More recently, the Toronto District School Board became <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/toronto-school-board-becomes-first-canada-recognize-caste-discrimination-2023-03-09\/\">the first in Canada to recognize caste-based discrimination<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe caste system, with its origins in India and other South Asian nations, is a complex, rigid, and hierarchical structure of privilege based on birth,\u201d writes Pathania in his article. \u201cCaste should not be part of the \u2018American Dream.\u2019\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2023\/02\/17\/opinion\/caste-should-not-be-part-american-dream\/\">Read the full article to learn more about caste systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pathania also writes, \u201cThe caste system is a disease, it&#8217;s an evil, it&#8217;s anti-civil. Schools, universities and workplaces should be aware of this global problem.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pathania, alongside teaching at EMU,<em> <\/em>runs a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Global-Initiative-for-Equity-Justice-111363880666187\/\">Global Initiative for Equity and Justice<\/a> and collaborates with anti-caste, race, and feminist scholars working in the area of higher education and social justice. He also moderates the <a href=\"https:\/\/mindsofcaste.org\/\">mindsofcaste.org<\/a> website and is part of the Ambedkar International Center\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/ambedkarinternationalcenter.org\/authors-lab\/\">Authors\u2019 Lab<\/a>, mentoring emerging scholars in the area of caste and social justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaurav J. 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