Caste is a luminous read, bearing its own torch of righteous wrath in a diamond-hard prose that will be admired and studied by future generations of journalists.”—Hamilton Cain, Minneapolis Star Tribune “Brave, clear and shatteringly honest in both approach and delivery . . Her debut work won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was named… More about Isabel Wilkerson, “Magnificent . [3] In her view, the caste framework also helps explain the participation of lower-caste people (Jewish kapos, Black police officers) in the oppression of their fellow caste members: caste systems self-perpetuate by rewarding those lower-caste people who comply with the system, thereby keeping the lower castes divided. Extrapolating Wilkerson’s ideas to contemporary America becomes an unsettling exercise that proves how right she is and how profoundly embedded into society the caste system is. Buy, Aug 04, 2020 Please try again later.

You cannot understand America today without this book.”—Lawrence O’Donnell “This enthralling exposé deserves a wide and impassioned readership.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)   “Similar to her previous book, the latest by Wilkerson is destined to become a classic, and is urgent, essential reading for all.”—Library Journal (starred review)  “This is a brilliant book, well timed in the face of a pandemic and police brutality that cleave along the lines of a caste system.”—Booklist (starred review), Publishers Weekly Best Books In Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson describes the infrastructure of the United States as a caste system akin to the Indian caste system and the one employed by the Nazi Germany. All titles are subject to availability   •   Prices subject to change, Politics and Prose at 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Politics and Prose at 70 District Square SW, Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Social Science / Sociology / Social Theory, Library Binding, Large Print (February 10th, 2021): $34.99, Red Dress in Black and White: A novel (Hardcover), All My Mother's Lovers: A Novel (Hardcover), The Jane Austen Society: A Novel (Hardcover), The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III (Hardcover), What Can I Do?

. that dreams of resistance are just one part of the shared inheritance of the world’s oldest democracy, and the world’s largest.”—Supriya Nair, Mumbai Mirror“It is bracing to be reminded with such precision that our country was built through genocide and slavery.

Wilkerson does so by comparing aspects of the experience of American people of color to the caste systems of India and Nazi Germany, and she explores the impact of castes on societies shaped by them, and their people. Buy. .

Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity. . . . . Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate. It is about power—which groups have it and which do not.” In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. . She concludes that it is possible – as in the dismantlement of Nazism after World War II – but that it requires both the bravery of individuals and an enormous effort of collective will especially by the dominant caste, given how deeply caste systems, like a chronic disease, are embedded in and shape societies. Aug 04, 2020 . [5] She addresses the mechanisms of backlash against attempts to transcend the caste system, as exemplified by the first lower-caste U.S. president being succeeded by one intent on reinforcing the system, and the importance of the "symbols of caste", such as swastikas or Confederate flags, to the perpetuation of the system. . : My Path from Climate Despair to Action (Hardcover), Think for Yourself: Restoring Common Sense in an Age of Experts and Artificial Intelligence (Hardcover), I Belong to Vienna: A Jewish Family's Story of Exile and Return (Paperback), Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (Paperback), Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present #12) (Paperback), This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality (Paperback). [10] The film will be directed by Ava DuVernay.

. I gulped it down.”—Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Mountains Beyond Mountains “Like Martin Luther King, Jr. before her, Isabel Wilkerson has traveled the world to study the caste system and has returned to show us more clearly than ever before how caste is permanently embedded in the foundation and unseen structural beams of this old house called America. But the real power of Caste lies tucked within the stories she strings together like pearls. . These include the anxious efforts of upper-caste people to retain their superior social status even while their economic status crumbles (hence the "necessity of a bottom rung", or the perceived need to prevent lower-caste success), unconscious biases embedded in a society's culture that perpetuate the caste system, or the function of lower-caste people as scapegoats. "[9] Publishers Weekly called Caste a “powerful and extraordinarily timely social history.”[11]The Chicago Tribune wrote that the book was "among the year’s best" books. But Ms. Wilkerson has also provided a renewed way of understanding America’s longest, fiercest trouble in all its complexity. . Her reporting is nimble and her sentences exquisite. Among them are the "narcissism of caste", which makes culture revolve around and idealize the dominant caste, or the Stockholm syndrome that serves as a survival mechanism for lower-caste people but helps keep them captive, or the physiological stress experienced by lower-caste people that reduces their life expectancy. Race, in the United States, is the visible agent of the unseen force of caste. 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.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York TimesThe 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.NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY“As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. Caste roams wide and deep, lives and deaths vividly captured, haloed with piercing cultural critique. . | 867 Minutes . Her book leaves me both grateful and hopeful.

. SELECTION, Sign up for news about books, authors, and more from Penguin Random House, Visit other sites in the Penguin Random House Network. By clicking Sign Up, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to Penguin Random House's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Review of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House, 2020) “Anything that causes the negro to aspire above the plow handle, the cook pot, in a word the functions of a servant, will be the worst thing on earth for the negro. Beautifully written, original, and revealing, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today. Wilkerson illustrates these pillars through examples from three caste systems: those of India, Nazi Germany and the United States.

. Caste peaked at number one on The New York Times nonfiction best-seller list. . It’s a book that changes the weather inside a reader.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times“A surprising and arresting wide-angle reframing . . .

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