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Caste

The Origins of Our Discontents

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Caste

Von: Isabel Wilkerson
Gesprochen von: Robin Miles
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 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES READERS PICK: 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times

The Pulitzer Prize-winning 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—now with a new Afterword by the author.

#1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, O: The Oprah Magazine, NPR, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, New York Post, The New York Public Library, Fortune, Smithsonian Magazine, Marie Claire, Slate, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • Winner of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award • Dayton Literary Prize Finalist • PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Finalist • Kirkus Prize Finalist

“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.”

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, Isabel 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. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity. Soziale Klassen & wirtschaftliche Ungleichheit Sozialtheorie Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie

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This book cuts deep into the origins of racist societies and leaves the reader astonished and 'woke'.

Must read

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I learnt a lot from this book. Together with Ezra Klein‘s Why we are polarized, it explained to me why America is as it is.

Important book, parts are exe-opening

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The book was hard to go through as it confronts you with hard truth and experience. It has brought a lot of memories of my home country Oman. Where i believe, we do have as well a cast system. Yes, I recommend the book for people looking to understand our humanity and and fight the evil with us.

Humanity Against Division: Reading Caste Through My Own Story

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Can't recommend this book enough. Very interesting new historical theses and comparisons to understand where we're coming from. Wonderful writing!

Most important book of the year!

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As a southern white man with vague memories of things like separate water fountains, who was in school when desegregation began and the local high school erupted into violent clashes this book clarifies so much of my lived experience. It opened my eyes to biases I didn’t realize I still had and why they are there in the first place. I do not claim, as is common with white men, that I don’t have a racist bone in my body. Things like this book keep uncovering bones that were buried deep. It‘s an uncomfortable experience, but nevertheless it is one for which I am truly grateful to Ms Wilkerson. I reside in Germany. There is a Jewish cemetery and Synagogue a short walk from my home. There are no new graves. There are no services at the Synagogue. There are just stumbling stones recording where Jews once lived. Ms Wilkerson‘s depiction of how the Germans have confronted their past is a model for us to emulate. My only quibble is something she may not have gotten in the translation. The stones don’t just say a person died at a camp. They says the person was murdered. That’s the level of frankness our discussions need.

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