While Blacks in America and Dalits in India are oppressed with similar experiences of marginalisation and 'othering', they also exhibit unique grounds of differentiation to some degree. Bama, one of the prominent Dalit thinkers, is the pen name of a Dalit woman writer from Tamil Nadu. Faustina Soosairaj was born into a Paraya family in the Puthupatti village in the Virudhunagar district of Southern Tamil Nadu. She, a Christian nun who converted to Roman Catholicism, is a well-known Dalit woman writer. In 2001, she got the Crossword Award for her Autobiography Karukku. This was when she and her memoirs gained the attention of readers and writers on a national and worldwide scale. The study of Dalit identity formations reveals more differences and pluralities than commonalities. This means that identity difficulties are multi-layered and intricate in these groups. It is not easy to articulate how Dalit identities are conceptualised, compared, and demarcated. The Racism in Bama Autobiography Karukku is discussed.