Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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
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Clear and well laid out argument for why we should consider the hierarchy in the USA as a one of the most premier caste systems in the world. Rivaled only by those in India and during Nazi Germany.
This is undoubtedly a week researched and thorough accounting of the cats system that exists in America. One of the things that most struck me from the book is how the rest of the world recognizes the caste system in America but Americans don't. If you aren't reading a lot about race in America then this will be mind blowing. If you are then this may be somewhat repetitive and not all that new.
Every single Americans (and that's including school kids) need to be required to read this book. There has never been a book that makes me understand America as a country in the clearest, most astounding and deepest way.
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