Yashica Dutt

New York

Journalist at Freelance

Author, Coming out as Dalit, Alum @ColumbiaJourn, Founder https://t.co/KFXdqW5ENI, Amazon link: https://t.co/k15fGNmj3h

Articles

Kamala Harris Isn’t Just Black and Indian — She’s Also Brahmin | The Juggernaut

Oct 30, 2024 | thejuggernaut.com | Yashica Dutt

The presidential candidate’s background has been dissected every which way this election. Yet many ignore her caste. Yashica Dutt. October 30, 2024. 12 minreadKamala Harris has repeatedly said that she doesn’t need defining. “I am who I am. I’m good with it. You might need to figure it out, but I’m fine with it,” she said in 2019 in response to a question about her Black and Indian heritage.
Shailaja Paik and the Question of Why a Dalit Woman Doesn't Deserve Her Success

Oct 25, 2024 | thewire.in | Yashica Dutt

caste Shailaja Paik recently became the first Dalit scholar to receive the prestigious McArthur Fellowship. And also the target of vitriol from dominant caste Indians. Historian Prof. Shailaja Paik is the first Dalit individual to receive the prestigious McArthur Fellowship. Source: From X @ambedkariteIND Support Free & Independent Journalism Good morning, we need your help! Since 2015, The Wire has fearlessly delivered independent journalism, holding truth to power.
The heartless cruelty that comes with being a Dalit woman

Oct 16, 2024 | yashicadutt.substack.com | Yashica Dutt

A few weeks ago, Prof. Shailaja Paik, historian and professor at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio received a call that some artists, academics, and creative workers wait a lifetime to answer. On the other side was the McArthur Foundation informing Paik that she had received what is inarguably one of the most prestigious grants in the United States — The McArthur Fellowship "Genius” Grant that comes with an $800,000 no-strings-attached stipend laid out over five years.
In Honor of the latest Hollywood Reporter India Cover Story

Sep 25, 2024 | yashicadutt.substack.com | Yashica Dutt

Mix unchecked influence and generational wealth with colossal power in an industry so toxic that it eventually starts collapsing in on itself, and you get Hollywood. But if you add feudal nativism, remove any crumbs of collective bargaining power afforded through unions and set it through the murkiest layer of caste hierarchy and access, then that’s Bollywood.
FROM THE PAGE: An Excerpt from Yashica Dutt’s Coming Out as Dalit

Apr 22, 2024 | commonreads.com | Yashica Dutt

PROLOGUEHiding one aspect of your identity is like leading a double life. You don’t feel like you belong anywhere. You create masks to wear in each of your lives, and switch artfully between the two. Eventually, the two blur together and you no longer remember who you were. Pretending to be from a caste that’s not Dalit is something like that. And there are so many of us who are living this lie.
Race, Caste, and the Model Minority Myth

Feb 6, 2024 | justicenews.co.in | Yashica Dutt

Trust Project Logo Why you can trust usBY YASHICA DUTTIf the construction of the “model minority” myth for Indian Americans rides on the back of their alleged casteless-ness, then their anti-Blackness, or at least a deliberate effort to separate themselves from marginalized Black Americans and other “less desirable” Indian immigrants, has also played a massive part in its edifice.
Race, Caste, and the Model Minority Myth

Feb 6, 2024 | yesmagazine.org | Yashica Dutt

If the construction of the “model minority” myth for Indian Americans rides on the back of their alleged casteless-ness, then their anti-Blackness, or at least a deliberate effort to separate themselves from marginalized Black Americans and other “less desirable” Indian immigrants, has also played a massive part in its edifice.
Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir of Surviving India's Caste System

Feb 5, 2024 | bookshop.org | Yashica Dutt

(Author) FORMAT Hardcover$29.95$27.85(English) Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller "...a moving personal story and a useful educational examination of persistent discrimination"--Kirkus Reviews For readers of Caste, the coming-of-age story of a Dalit individual that illuminates systemic injustice in India and its growing impact on US society Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puruskar, 2020 Born into a "formerly untouchable manual-scavenging family...
Coming Out as Dalit

Feb 5, 2024 | beacon.org | Yashica Dutt

For readers of Caste, the coming-of-age story of a Dalit individual that illuminates systemic injustice in India and its growing impact on US society “A moving personal story and a useful educational examination of persistent discrimination”—Kirkus Reviews Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puruskar, 2020 Born into a “formerly untouchable manual-scavenging family in small-town India,” Yashica Dutt was taught from a young age to not appear “Dalit looking.” Although prejudice against Dalits,...
Paul Giffard-Foret reviews Coming out as Dalit by Yashica Dutt

Oct 1, 2023 | mascarareview.com | Yashica Dutt

October 2, 2023 / mascara / 0 Comments Coming out as Dalit by Yashica Dutt Aleph Books Reviewed by PAUL GIFFARD-FORET Yashica Dutt’s memoir about coming out as Dalit, written in the tone of a manifesto, ought to be seen against the backdrop of a burgeoning literary scene by lower-caste women authors hailing from the Indian subcontinent or the diaspora, including recent publications such as Kalyani Thakur Charal’s poetry collection I belong to Nowhere: Poems of Hope and Resistance, or Anjali...