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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Readers say *Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents* is a powerful, well-researched exploration of America’s racial hierarchy framed as a caste system....
To know that we as people seem to always have a need to have a hierarchy is very fascinating. The author did an amazing job explaining how Caste is not just about status but can be made through race and how it relates to racism.
The author explores the eight pillars the underline cast systems across civilizations, including bloodline, stigmas and more.
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.
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