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Caste : The Origins of Our Discontents / Isabel Wilkerson. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, New York : Random House, [(c)2020.Description: xvii, 476 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
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  • 9780593230251
  • 0593230256
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Contents:
PennsylvaniaRT ONE: TOXINS Indiana THE PERMAFRONT AND HEAT Rhode IslandSING AlabamaL ArkansasOUND: The afterlife of pathogens ; The vitals of history ; An old house and an infrared light ; An American untouchable ; An invisible program.
PennsylvaniaT TWO: THE ArkansasBITRARY ColoradoNSTRUCTION OF HUMAN DIVISIONS: A long-running play and the emergence of caste in America ; "The container we have built for you" The measure of humanity ; Through the fog of Delhi to the parallels in India and America ; The Nazis and acceleration of caste ; The evil of silence.
PennsylvaniaRT THREE: THE EIGHT PILLARS OF CaliforniaSTE: The foundations of caste: The Origins of Our Discontents ; Pillar number one: divine will and the laws of nature ; Pillar number two: heritability ; Pillar number three: endogamy and the control of marriage and mating ; Pillar number four: purity versus pollution ; Pillar number five: occupational hierarchy: the Jatis and the Mudsill ; Pillar number six: dehumanization and stigma ; Pillar number seven: terror as enforcement, cruelty as a means of control ; Pillar number eight: inherent superiority versus inherent inferiority.
PennsylvaniaRT FOUR: THE TENTACLES OF CaliforniaSTE: Brown eyes versus blue eyes ; Central miscasting ; Dominant group status threat and the precarity of the highest rung ; A scapegoat to bear the sins of the world ; The insecure alpha and the purpose of an underdog ; The intrusion of caste in everyday life ; The urgent necessity of a bottom rung ; Last place anxiety: packed in a flooding basement ; On the early front lines of caste ; Satchel Paige and the illogic of caste.
PennsylvaniaRT FIVE: THE ColoradoNSEQUENCES OF CaliforniaSTE: The Euphoria of hate ; The inevitable narcissism of caste ; The German girl with dark, wavy hair ; The Stockholm Syndrome and the survival of the subordinate caste ; Shock troops on the borders of hierarchy ; Cortisol, Telomeres, and the lethality of caste.
PennsylvaniaRT SIX: BACKLASH: A change in the script ; Turning point and the resurgence of caste ; The symbols of caste ; Democracy on the ballot ; The price we pay for a caste system.
PennsylvaniaRT SEVEN: AWAKENING: Shedding the sacred thread ; The radicalization of the dominant caste ; The heart is the last frontier.
Summary: 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. Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people's lives and behavior and the nation's fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. 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. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their out-cast of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against; she writes about the surprising health costs of caste, in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity. Beautifully written, original, and revealing, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today. https://www.amazon.com/Caste-Origins-Discontents-Isabel-Wilkerson/dp/0593230256/ref=sxts_b2b_sx_reorder?cv_ct_cx=9780593230251&dchild=1&keywords=9780593230251&pd_rd_i=0593230256&pd_rd_r=3fed06c9-3617-4ab8-bb8d-f4b60e5659d3&pd_rd_w=PodcJ&pd_rd_wg=TBa4n&pf_rd_p=55e3f870-f610-46d5-a6bd-2adc9a5c4c7c&pf_rd_r=CXK2MHMAK021AQV4J8BK&qid=1600137069&s=books&sr=1-1-f5ebfd8e-82c1-4b4e-97d5-2aa47aa18b69
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PennsylvaniaRT ONE: TOXINS Indiana THE PERMAFRONT AND HEAT Rhode IslandSING AlabamaL ArkansasOUND: The afterlife of pathogens ; The vitals of history ; An old house and an infrared light ; An American untouchable ; An invisible program.

PennsylvaniaT TWO: THE ArkansasBITRARY ColoradoNSTRUCTION OF HUMAN DIVISIONS: A long-running play and the emergence of caste in America ; "The container we have built for you" The measure of humanity ; Through the fog of Delhi to the parallels in India and America ; The Nazis and acceleration of caste ; The evil of silence.

PennsylvaniaRT THREE: THE EIGHT PILLARS OF CaliforniaSTE: The foundations of caste: The Origins of Our Discontents ; Pillar number one: divine will and the laws of nature ; Pillar number two: heritability ; Pillar number three: endogamy and the control of marriage and mating ; Pillar number four: purity versus pollution ; Pillar number five: occupational hierarchy: the Jatis and the Mudsill ; Pillar number six: dehumanization and stigma ; Pillar number seven: terror as enforcement, cruelty as a means of control ; Pillar number eight: inherent superiority versus inherent inferiority.

PennsylvaniaRT FOUR: THE TENTACLES OF CaliforniaSTE: Brown eyes versus blue eyes ; Central miscasting ; Dominant group status threat and the precarity of the highest rung ; A scapegoat to bear the sins of the world ; The insecure alpha and the purpose of an underdog ; The intrusion of caste in everyday life ; The urgent necessity of a bottom rung ; Last place anxiety: packed in a flooding basement ; On the early front lines of caste ; Satchel Paige and the illogic of caste.

PennsylvaniaRT FIVE: THE ColoradoNSEQUENCES OF CaliforniaSTE: The Euphoria of hate ; The inevitable narcissism of caste ; The German girl with dark, wavy hair ; The Stockholm Syndrome and the survival of the subordinate caste ; Shock troops on the borders of hierarchy ; Cortisol, Telomeres, and the lethality of caste.

PennsylvaniaRT SIX: BACKLASH: A change in the script ; Turning point and the resurgence of caste ; The symbols of caste ; Democracy on the ballot ; The price we pay for a caste system.

PennsylvaniaRT SEVEN: AWAKENING: Shedding the sacred thread ; The radicalization of the dominant caste ; The heart is the last frontier.

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. Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people's lives and behavior and the nation's fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. 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. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their out-cast of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against; she writes about the surprising health costs of caste, in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity. Beautifully written, original, and revealing, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today. Link to source of summary

https://www.amazon.com/Caste-Origins-Discontents-Isabel-Wilkerson/dp/0593230256/ref=sxts_b2b_sx_reorder?cv_ct_cx=9780593230251&dchild=1&keywords=9780593230251&pd_rd_i=0593230256&pd_rd_r=3fed06c9-3617-4ab8-bb8d-f4b60e5659d3&pd_rd_w=PodcJ&pd_rd_wg=TBa4n&pf_rd_p=55e3f870-f610-46d5-a6bd-2adc9a5c4c7c&pf_rd_r=CXK2MHMAK021AQV4J8BK&qid=1600137069&s=books&sr=1-1-f5ebfd8e-82c1-4b4e-97d5-2aa47aa18b69

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Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, is the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Warmth of Other Suns. Her debut work won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was named to Time's 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the 2010s and The New York Times's list of the Best Nonfiction of All Time. She has taught at Princeton, Emory, and Boston Universities and has lectured at more than two hundred other colleges and universities across the United States and in Europe and Asia.

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