Caste: The origins of our discontents
Author(s): Isabel Wilkerson
The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power - which groups have it and which do not' Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions.
In Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hidden phenomenon. Linking America, India and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson reveals how our world has been shaped by caste - and how its rigid, arbitrary hierarchies still divide us today. With clear-sighted rigour, Wilkerson unearths the eight pillars that connect caste systems across civilizations, and demonstrates how our own era of intensifying conflict and upheaval has arisen as a consequence of caste. Weaving in stories of real people, she shows how its insidious undertow emerges every day; she documents its surprising health costs; and she explores its effects on culture and politics. Finally, Wilkerson points forward to the ways we can - and must - move beyond its artificial divisions, towards our common humanity.
Beautifully written and deeply original, Caste is an eye-opening examination of what lies beneath the surface of ordinary lives. No one can afford to ignore the moral clarity of its insights, or its urgent call for a freer, fairer world.
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THE TIME NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
'Required reading for all of humanity' Oprah Winfrey
"If you haven't read it yet, you absolutely must." - Edward Enninful, Vogue
'An instant American classic' Dwight Garner, The New York TimesĀ
General Fields
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- : Penguin UK
- : Penguin Press
- : 362.0
- : 27 February 2023
- : 2.5 Centimeters X 12.9 Centimeters X 19.8 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Isabel Wilkerson
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 305.51220973