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Caste Audiobook 🎧 The Origins of Our Discontents 🎧 Isabel Wilkerson
The bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unwritten caste system that has molded America and demonstrates how our lives are still characterized by a hierarchy of human divisions today.
TIME NAMED IT THE #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR, ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PEOPLE, THE WASHINGTON POST, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • Fortune • Smithsonian Magazine • Marie Claire • Town & Country • Slate • Library Journal • Kirkus Reviews • LibraryReads • PopMatters
• Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award • Dayton Literary Peace Prize • PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Longlist
«As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance, flashlight cast down in the aisles.» The caste system is not based on feelings or morals. It all comes down to power—which factions have it and which do not.»
In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson paints a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America, exploring how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative, and stories about real people.
A powerful caste system influences people’s lives and conduct, as well as the fate of the nation, independent of race, class, or other circumstances. Wilkerson investigates eight pillars that underpin caste systems across civilizations, including a divine, will, bloodlines, shame, and more, by connecting the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany. She demonstrates the insidious undertow of caste with gripping vignettes of characters such as Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball’s Satchel Paige, a single father and his baby son, Wilkerson herself, and many others. She explains why the terrible logic of caste needs that there be a bottom rung for those in the center to measure themselves by; she writes about the shocking health costs of caste, in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our society and politics. Finally, she suggests ways for America to move beyond the artificial and destructive divisions of humankind, toward optimism in our shared humanity.
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, a beautifully written, innovative, and enlightening account of people and history, is a reexamination of what lies beneath the surface of everyday lives and of American life today.
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