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Ideology, religion, culture and knowledge power
Merit narratives, stigma, curriculum, religion, media, and cultural gatekeeping legitimize unequal status and erase anti-caste knowledge.
This mechanism spine is a research hypothesis supplied by the package and must be tested expression by expression.
10 expressions
- “Merit” ideology, reservation stigma and anti-reservation backlash ind-caste-071
- Casteist slurs, jokes, humiliation and normalized everyday language ind-caste-072
- Textbook omission or sanitization of caste history ind-caste-073
- Erasure of anti-caste thinkers, movements, memorials and intellectual traditions ind-caste-074
- Media ownership and newsroom representation ind-caste-075
- Caste stereotypes in film, television, advertising and popular culture ind-caste-076
- Gatekeeping in academia, publishing, think tanks and knowledge production ind-caste-077
- Priesthood, religious authority and ritual exclusion ind-caste-078
- Appropriation or devaluation of Dalit-Bahujan-Adivasi cultures and labor ind-caste-079
- Representation in arts, sports, cultural institutions, juries and awards ind-caste-080