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New Book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - Wilkerson, Isabel - Paperback 9780593230275
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Author: Wilkerson, Isabel

Publication Date: 02/14/2023

Format: Paperback

In this influential bestseller, Isabel Wilkerson gives a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.

Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people's lives and behavior and the nation's fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations. Using riveting stories about people—including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball's Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others—she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their outcast of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against; she writes about the surprising health costs of caste, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. She points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity.

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