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Caste : the lies that divide us / Isabel Wilkerson.

By: Wilkerson, Isabel [author.].
Publisher: UK : Penguin Random House, 2020Description: xvii, 476p.ISBN: 9780241486511.Subject(s): Caste-based discrimination -- United States | Ethnicity -- United States | Social Classes -- United States | Social stratification -- United StatesDDC classification: 305.5122
Contents:
Part one. Toxins in the permafrost and heat rising all around -- part two. The arbitrary construction of human divisions -- part three. The eight pillars of caste -- part four. The tentacles of caste -- part five. The consequences of caste -- part six. Backlash -- part seven. Awakening.
Summary: 'The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power - which groups have it and which do not' Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hidden phenomenon. Linking America, India and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson reveals how our world has been shaped by caste - and how its rigid, arbitrary hierarchies still divide us today. With clear-sighted rigour, Wilkerson unearths the eight pillars that connect caste systems across civilizations, and demonstrates how our own era of intensifying conflict and upheaval has arisen as a consequence of caste. Weaving in stories of real people, she shows how its insidious undertow emerges every day; she documents its surprising health costs; and she explores its effects on culture and politics. Finally, Wilkerson points forward to the ways we can - and must - move beyond its artificial divisions, towards our common humanity. Beautifully written and deeply original, Caste is an eye-opening examination of what lies beneath the surface of ordinary lives
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part one. Toxins in the permafrost and heat rising all around -- part two. The arbitrary construction of human divisions -- part three. The eight pillars of caste -- part four. The tentacles of caste -- part five. The consequences of caste -- part six. Backlash -- part seven. Awakening.

'The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power - which groups have it and which do not' Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hidden phenomenon. Linking America, India and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson reveals how our world has been shaped by caste - and how its rigid, arbitrary hierarchies still divide us today. With clear-sighted rigour, Wilkerson unearths the eight pillars that connect caste systems across civilizations, and demonstrates how our own era of intensifying conflict and upheaval has arisen as a consequence of caste. Weaving in stories of real people, she shows how its insidious undertow emerges every day; she documents its surprising health costs; and she explores its effects on culture and politics. Finally, Wilkerson points forward to the ways we can - and must - move beyond its artificial divisions, towards our common humanity. Beautifully written and deeply original, Caste is an eye-opening examination of what lies beneath the surface of ordinary lives

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