Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. There is also mention of India and the nuances of their unfair caste system where unwritten order is maintained by those holding the power and where the power dynamic between rich and poor, black and white is severely unbalanced, as it is the world over, with the country still being affected by colonialism / imperialism today. This book has given me a completely different perspective on racism and caste.

Americans don’t think in these terms, but Isabel Wilkerson points out in no uncertain terms that the country is running a caste system, remarkably and sadly just like India’s.

To see what your friends thought of this book, The book addresses the difference with a quote borrowed from another author - "you can't earn or wed your way out" of the caste. And, of course, the US. She compares their positions to the Dalit, better known as the Untouchables, the lowest rung of the lowest caste in India, and to Jews during the Holocaust. If you read only one book this year, make it this one.

I think that’s what Wilkerson has done by using the word “caste” to describe what others have described as structural, institutional, or systemic racism. However, I found it a bit short-sighted and was personally disappointed in this work.

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is a nonfiction book by the American journalist Isabel Wilkerson published in 2020. In India, there are four varnas and numerous, maybe thousands of subdivisions between them.

ISBN10: 0593230256 See our, Read a limited number of articles each month, You consent to the use of cookies and tracking by us and third parties to provide you with personalized ads, Unlimited access to washingtonpost.com on any device, Unlimited access to all Washington Post apps, No on-site advertising or third-party ad tracking. I feel that I can now put the pieces together, so as to have an understanding of why most white people See themselves as superior to other races especially people with darker complexion. She turns all the stones, and nothing is left. The thesis on race and caste is compelling but there’s a lot of simplistic theorization and the comparisons she makes between the US, India and Germany are superficial and at points, just plain dubious (e.g.

In 2012, The New York Times Magazine named Warmth to its list of the best nonfiction books of all time. Work on that reading comprehension.

Readers lead by the publisher's notes to expect a scholarly study of the various forms in which caste divisions appear in societies, and their effects, will not find what they are looking for in this book.

In my lifetime, each Republican president has been worse than the last and with each I’ve assumed we’d reached rock bottom – but Trump has proven there is no bottom.

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Unlike the Indian caste system, which had hundreds if not hundreds of separate castes, we basically have two. In my lifetime, each Republican president has been worse than the last and with each I’ve assumed we’d reached rock bottom – but Trump has proven there is no bottom. 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.

In fact, a real bookworm will never normally budget this dear actions only for certain venues along with times. A superbly written book about American societal hierarchy based on caste, the embedded infrastructure of power and superiority that segments of the population ruthlessly hold over others. In fact, the Nazis used American race laws to design their own system. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.
Wilkerson sadly noted that she was so used to such treatment, it didn’t seem abnormal in any way.

The author has won the Pulitzer Prize and her earlier book was a highly praised best seller as is this one. Clear leftist bias.

If ever there were a book for this time, Caste would be it. Nobody can dispute that race relations in the US have some distance to go before reaching an acceptable parity.

In the US, there is the dominant caste and the subordinate caste. Americans don’t think in these terms, but Isabel Wilkerson points out in no uncertain terms that the country is running a caste system, remarkably and sadly just like India’s. Brava and thanks to @IsabelWilkerson for her diligent research and analytical thinking. For this book, she proceeded to study the two best known caste systems in the world—India and Nazi Germany. “The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. Wilkerson’s thesis is that Black people in the U.S. occupy, and have always occupied, the lowest position within our social and economic ranks; social class is changeable, but caste is fixed.

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