THE TIME NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR | #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Powerful and timely ... I cannot recommend it strongly enough" -
Barack Obama Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a
powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer
Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson provides a profound,
eye-opening portrait of this hidden phenomenon. This is the story
of how our world was shaped by caste, and how its rigid, arbitrary
hierarchies still divide us today. 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 out-cast 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 we
can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human
divisions, toward hope in our common humanity. 'Required reading
for all of humanity' Oprah Winfrey "If you haven't read it yet, you
absolutely must." - Edward Enninful, Vogue 'An instant American
classic' Dwight Garner, The New York Times
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