California Dreamin’ on Caste
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This comment picks out the fictional aspect of the putative social structure — the caste system — and discrimination consequent to the perception that a person belongs to it, as two dimensions that make the California's Senate Bill 403 produce results that its proponents have not anticipated, and which ought to lead them to resile from their project. In short, I argue that the caste system is a fictional social structure and its attribution to a group of people based on the perception that group members discriminate on caste grounds can be used to target the very proponents of the legislation.
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Shah, PCollections
- Department of Law [867]