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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (June 2021)
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Hmmm, there are so many false facts misinterpreted in there that I'm not sure why I'm not DNFing it.
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... the world’s oldest and most powerful democracy was in spasms over an election that would transfix the Western world and become a psychic break in American history... (c) The world's oldest democracy is Greece. They invented it, actually. Not the US.
All the crap about a woman, WOMAN candidate for POTUS. And another, African-American, AFRICAN-AMERICAN POTUS are miles off the target. As long as ...more
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... the world’s oldest and most powerful democracy was in spasms over an election that would transfix the Western world and become a psychic break in American history... (c) The world's oldest democracy is Greece. They invented it, actually. Not the US.
All the crap about a woman, WOMAN candidate for POTUS. And another, African-American, AFRICAN-AMERICAN POTUS are miles off the target. As long as ...more
The agony of the poor impoverishes the rich; the betterment of the poor enriches the rich. We are inevitably our brother’s keeper because we are our brother’s brother. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. – Martin Luther King (1967)
If I were reading only two books on race right now (of the ones on race that I've read), I would choose Caste and How to be an Antiracist, probably in that order: first, recognize the problem, then combat it.
African Americans are doing better in the U ...more
If I were reading only two books on race right now (of the ones on race that I've read), I would choose Caste and How to be an Antiracist, probably in that order: first, recognize the problem, then combat it.
African Americans are doing better in the U ...more
"Color is a fact. Race is a social construct".
A nonfiction book that makes us think. Due to the social climate this book was right on time. I learned what caste means and the sad part is we can actually see which one we belong to. Overall, I am giving it 3 stars because some parts felt disjointed and repetitive.
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A nonfiction book that makes us think. Due to the social climate this book was right on time. I learned what caste means and the sad part is we can actually see which one we belong to. Overall, I am giving it 3 stars because some parts felt disjointed and repetitive.
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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
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
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