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  • 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 outcasting 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.

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AuthorIsabel Wilkerson
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Publication dateAugust 4, 2020
Print length648 pages
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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.

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    Always amuses me when someone criticizes a work for being driven by agenda. Every book has an agenda. That's how the human mind works. If it didn't have agenda it would be very boring and have no point of view.
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    Thanks OP! This book was also the inspiration for the acclaimed film Origin, which came out earlier this year.
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    You should keep in mind this criticism is coming from someone named "Blackshirt."

    Call it a dog-whistle if you want but the combo is pretty blatant. For reference, blackshirts were the action squads in Mussolini's Italy.
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    Thanks OP! This book was also the inspiration for the acclaimed film Origin, which came out earlier this year.
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    05-22-2024 at 10:12 AM.
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    Quote from blackshirt :
    Terrible book. The research is cherry picked and attempts to draw parallels is often tenuous. This book felt so agenda driven.
    that's actually really good to know. I liked it a lot, but it was effectively my introduction to the topic, so I couldn't really look at it critically
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    05-22-2024 at 10:33 AM.
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    Quote from blackshirt :
    Terrible book. The research is cherry picked and attempts to draw parallels is often tenuous. This book felt so agenda driven.
    Always amuses me when someone criticizes a work for being driven by agenda. Every book has an agenda. That's how the human mind works. If it didn't have agenda it would be very boring and have no point of view.
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    05-22-2024 at 10:39 AM.
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    haven't read the book but did see the film, and it certainly made a compelling case, which made me interested in the book. shame the film didn't get more recognition (and some thought its dramatization vs. documentary-style detracted from a potentially greater possible impact).

    picked it up for kindle using no rush shipping credits Smilie thanks, op!
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    Thanks OP! While I may not have agreed with 100% of it, this book was eye-opening and made a compelling case.
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    I tried listening to the audiobook but found it quite dry and academic; I didn't get past a couple of hours. Far prefer Isabel Wilkerson's other pivotal work The Warmth of Other Suns, which covers the Great Migration of African Americans out of the South and is written in a much more engaging and personal style.
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    I could only make it about halfway through. She's a good writer, and I agree with almost all of her arguments, but the book was so repetitive it made me want to stick a fork in my eye.
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    Loved the movie, a must watch !
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    I only got halfway through the book. She made most of her important points in the first half. But what made me stop reading were the heart wrenching horrors of both U.S. slavery and Jim Crow and the Holocaust. Everyone should read this book to understand the systemic racism in the U.S.
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    Fantastic book, highly recommend. A solid mix of academic research and personal storytelling.
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    Quote from dychui :
    I tried listening to the audiobook but found it quite dry and academic; I didn't get past a couple of hours. Far prefer Isabel Wilkerson's other pivotal work The Warmth of Other Suns, which covers the Great Migration of African Americans out of the South and is written in a much more engaging and personal style.
    Strongly agree.
    I read The Warmth of Other Suns first, and became interested in following up with her other works bought Caste. After the first 20-30 interesting pages, it became a disappointment, repetitive, and kind of rant-ish.
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    Quote from dychui :
    I tried listening to the audiobook but found it quite dry and academic; I didn't get past a couple of hours. Far prefer Isabel Wilkerson's other pivotal work The Warmth of Other Suns, which covers the Great Migration of African Americans out of the South and is written in a much more engaging and personal style.
    Interesting, I listened to Caste first and found it to be incredible. Then I tried the warmth of other suns and found that one too dry.
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