{"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: 91短视频 professor Gaurav Pathania published in Boston Globe, interviewed by PBS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Gaurav J. Pathania, professor of sociology and peacebuilding at 91短视频, has been published in The Boston Globe<\/a> and interviewed by PBS NewsHour<\/a> for his activism and expertise regarding caste systems and discrimination.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both his article and interview speak to the February milestone of 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 the first in Canada to recognize caste-based discrimination<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \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 Read the full article to learn more about caste systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pathania also writes, \u201cThe caste system is a disease, it’s an evil, it’s anti-civil. Schools, universities and workplaces should be aware of this global problem.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pathania, alongside teaching at 91短视频, <\/em>runs a 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 mindsofcaste.org<\/a> website and is part of the Ambedkar International Center\u2019s Authors\u2019 Lab<\/a>, mentoring emerging scholars in the area of caste and social justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gaurav J. Pathania, professor of sociology and peacebuilding at 91短视频, has been published in The Boston Globe and interviewed by PBS NewsHour for his activism and expertise regarding ... read more about In the News: 91短视频 professor Gaurav Pathania published in Boston Globe, interviewed by PBS<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":53919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12503,17562,5642,1],"tags":[17868,17867],"feature":[17427,17426,17241],"class_list":["post-53916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cjp","category-digest","category-faculty-and-staff","category-uncategorized","tag-cjp-2","tag-guarav-pathania","feature-emu-home-page-feature","feature-myemu-feature","feature-news-feature"],"yoast_head":"\n