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Caste The Origins of Our Discontents
Penulis
: Isabel Wilkerson
Edisi
:
Editor
:
Collation
: 476 hlm
Subyek
: LCSH Caste United States
Penerbit
: Random House - New York
Tahun
: 2020
ISBN
: 9780593230251
Call Number
: 305.5 WIL c
Ringkasan :
In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in deeply researched narrative and stories about real peo- ple, 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, a powerful caste system 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, and stigma. Using riveting stories about people-including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball's Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, and Wilkerson herself-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 outcasting of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires a bot- tom 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 divi- sions, toward hope in our common humanity.

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