Caste : the origins of our discontents / Isabel Wilkerson.

By:

Wilkerson, Isabel [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Random House, [2020]Copyright date: �2020Edition: First editionDescription: xvii, 476 pages ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780593230251
0593230256

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305.5 WIL 23

LOC classification:

HT725.U6 W55 2020

Summary: The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not. Wilkerson explores how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. 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. She discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity. -- adapted from jacket

List(s) this item appears in: Black History Month 2023- Recommended Reads

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
300 - 399	Shelburne Public Library Shelves	Non-Fiction	305.5 WIL	Available		9500342672077

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [397]-453) and index.

The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not. Wilkerson explores how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. 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. She discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity. -- adapted from jacket

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Caste : the origins of our discontents / Isabel Wilkerson.