"Cast, Color & Gender" Panel at JLF - New York

"Cast, Color & Gender" Panel at JLF - New York

The panel “Caste, Color, and Gender,” moderated by Prajwal Parajuly, opened with Yashica Dutt’s account of how she’d spent a lifetime pretending to be someone else… Sharmila Sen had grown up in a society full of different hierarchies—language, religion, social class, gender—but not race… Margo Jefferson didn’t grow up “rich.” “You would say ‘comfortable,’” she explained about her upbringing in Chicago, which she details in her award-winning memoir NEGROLAND.

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