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Release on 2020-08-04 | by Isabel Wilkerson

It is about power—which groups have it and which do not.” In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and ...

Author: Isabel Wilkerson
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 9780593230268
Category: Social Science
Page: 496
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Caste Oprah s Book Club

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions. NAMED THE #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY People • The Washington Post • Publishers Weekly AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • O: The Oprah Magazine • NPR • Bloomberg • Christian Science Monitor • New York Post • The New York Public Library • Fortune • Smithsonian Magazine • Marie Claire • Town & Country • Slate • Library Journal • Kirkus Reviews • LibraryReads • PopMatters Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Longlist “As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power—which groups have it and which do not.” In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us 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, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. 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 out-cast 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, in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity. Beautifully written, original, and revealing, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today.

Language: en
Pages: 496

Caste (Oprah's Book Club)

Authors: Isabel Wilkerson

Categories: Social Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-04 - Publisher: Random House

Language: en
Pages:

Summary of Caste (Oprah's Book Club)

Authors: Alexander Cooper

Categories: Social Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-02-14 - Publisher: BookSummaryGr

Summary of Caste (Oprah's Book Club) Caste is the foundation of our divisions," Isabel Wilkerson writes in The Origins of Our Discontents. Standing resembles the bones of an old house, "the studs and joists that we can't find in the physical structures we call home." It is additionally similar to

Language: en
Pages: 50

Summary and Analysis

Authors: Stella U Williams

Categories: Social Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-28 - Publisher: Independently Published

Disclaimer: This Summary and Analysis is not written by the Original Author Isabel Wilkerson but by Stella U.Willams. THIS DOES NOT IN ANYWAY TAKE THE PLACE OF THE ORIGINAL.THIS BOOK PROVIDES MAJOR POINTS TO CONSIDER. This provides you with short read experience and allow you to see the original writer's

Language: en
Pages: 28

Summary & Analysis

Authors: Fast Reads Publishing

Categories: Social Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-21 - Publisher: Independently Published

A Summary Of Caste: The Origin of our Discontents. Disclaimer: This summary guide is not written by the original author of the book. It is written and published by Fast Reads Publishing. This book does not in any way take the place of the original book but to serve as

Language: en
Pages: 28

Summary and Analysis

Authors: Christabel Robinson

Categories: Social Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-23 - Publisher:

A Summary Of Caste: The Origin of our Discontents. Disclaimer: This summary guide is not written by the original author of the book. It is written and published by Christabel Robinson. This book does not in any way take the place of the original book but to serve as a