Caste :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
xvii, 476 pages ; 25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Random House, [2020]
Summary
""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. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. 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. 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 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 America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity. 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 America life today"--
Call Number
305.5122 WILKERSON
Publication Date
2020
Language
English
ISBN
9780593230251 9780593230275
Caste :
Author
Format:
Audio disc
System details note
Compact discs.
Physical Description
12 audio discs (approximately 14 1/2 hours) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition
Unabridged.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Random House Audio, [2020]
Summary
The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how people's lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.
Call Number
AUDIOBOOK CD 305.5 WILKERSON
Publication Date
2020
Language
English
ISBN
9780593396698
Caste :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
338 pages ; 22 cm
Edition
First edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Delacorte Press, [2022]
Summary
"This work is based on Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, copyright © 2020. Originally published in the United States in hardcover by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC , New York, in 2020"--
Call Number
TEEN SOC WILKERSON
Publication Date
2022
Language
English
ISBN
9780593427941 9780593427958
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