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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (June 2021)
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Isabel Wilkerson gives you real accounts and stories about how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.
She points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity.
She points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity.
How can one review a book like this about people's suffering?
I went into this book in a hurry, because I was reading it for work and on such a tight schedule, but I think I'll be rereading it again to truly absorb everything in it. It's a necessary book to understand slavery and Black Lives Matter movements and understand the history of the racism in the US specifically. ...more
I went into this book in a hurry, because I was reading it for work and on such a tight schedule, but I think I'll be rereading it again to truly absorb everything in it. It's a necessary book to understand slavery and Black Lives Matter movements and understand the history of the racism in the US specifically. ...more
After reading "The Warmth of Other Suns," I was excited to read that Isabel Wilkerson had written another book and I quickly reserved it at my library. Now that I've finished this book Caste, I have to say that I'm somewhat disappointed.
"The Warmth of Other Suns" told the stories of three African-Americans who had escaped the South of the United States to join the Great Migration of African-Americans to the North in search of better lives. Reading their stories made the history of this immigrati ...more
"The Warmth of Other Suns" told the stories of three African-Americans who had escaped the South of the United States to join the Great Migration of African-Americans to the North in search of better lives. Reading their stories made the history of this immigrati ...more
While sometimes I think that this was a little too long, this was fascinating and should be required reading for those who want to learn about racism.
4.75 stars
This is an important book and I learned a lot. I want to continue to read books that challenge my subconscious bias, acquired as a middle-class white woman born just before the 1960s, growing up in the Midwest.
I am giving this book 4.75 stars instead of 5 stars because:
I align with the Republican party, and voted Republican in the 2016 election, and for myself and other Republicans that I know, I disagree that it was all about/only about preserving dominant caste. There are dehumanizin ...more
This is an important book and I learned a lot. I want to continue to read books that challenge my subconscious bias, acquired as a middle-class white woman born just before the 1960s, growing up in the Midwest.
I am giving this book 4.75 stars instead of 5 stars because:
I align with the Republican party, and voted Republican in the 2016 election, and for myself and other Republicans that I know, I disagree that it was all about/only about preserving dominant caste. There are dehumanizin ...more
This is an incredible book. It was a tough read not for its writing style—the author writes lyrically and evocatively—but because its topic is harsh and the lessons intense. I thought I knew about segregation in America and I learned how little I had known. America is absolutely ruled by caste and understanding that explains Trump and so much more. Highly recommend this book for all Americans.
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