Caste is Race Because It’s Based On Your Parents, Not You

Giveaway285, CC BY-SA 4.0Thinking about prejudice in Igbo society, I had a simple realization: caste is race because it’s about our parents, not us. Most Americans think race is based on what we look like, but the old phenomenon of race-passing shows that’s not true—in this century, Rachel Dolezal and Jessica Krug were able to pass as people of color until their parentage became public knowledge.