Avinash Hingorani is CAUSE Postdoctoral Fellow at The Center for African American Studies and the Economy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania.His areas of interest are evaluating race, caste and class from an international and comparative perspective, caste marginalization in both the United States and India, comparing the mass incarceration and criminalization of Black Americans in the United States to the criminalization of low-caste Indians in India, and global, racial and social justice.