Isabel Wilkerson

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Just as DNA is the code of instructions for cell development, caste is the operating system for economic, political, and social interaction in the United States from the time of its gestation.
Isabel Wilkerson
This foreshadows the chapter on slavery, which became the social, political and economic framework from 1619 onward, more than a century before there was a United States of America, and which became the foundation of caste in our country.
Mike
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Mike
I believe we are moving in the right direction. You see it in the masses of the integration of all races at the protest throughout the country. My education in Socialism classes throughout college…
Kali Kurdy
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Kali Kurdy
I agree Mike that it was through my Sociology classes, those I took and those I taught, that I started seeing through a different lens.
Angela Wood
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Angela Wood
Sufferage again is a good example of this. Economically in the beginning only white male landowners could vote. politically voting rights are written by Politicians, and socially those who could not v…
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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