Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is a nonfiction book by the American journalist Isabel Wilkerson, published in August 2020 by Random House. The book describes racism in the United States as an …

2020年8月4日 · 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 …

Poetically written and brilliantly researched, Caste invites us to discover the inner workings of an American hierarchy that goes far beyond the confines of race, class, or gender.

2020年8月4日 · 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, …

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson argues that America is built on an invisible, race-based caste system that is responsible for many of the country’s societal problems.

Drawing on two of the best-known caste systems in history—in India and Nazi Germany—as a lens for understanding how the abuses of power, privilege, and oppression intersect, she makes the case that …

2020年8月4日 · Isabel Wilkerson's tour-de-force of a new book, Caste, explores the origins of inequality in the U.S. and connects racial injustice to India and Nazi Germany.

Caste, as Wilkerson sees it, is the bones beneath the superficial skin we call “race.” It is the obdurate set of assumptions and expectations buried so deeply in human experience that it is all but impossible to …

2023年2月14日 · 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, …

Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is a 2020 historical and narrative nonfiction work about the nature of inequality in the United States, India, and Nazi Germany.