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<\/a><\/p>\nIsabel Wilkerson<\/a><\/h2>\n <\/p>\n
The writer, lecturer and the Pulitzer Prize-winning, <\/span>Isabel Wilkerson, <\/span>examines in her newest book, Caste: The Origin of our Discontents,<\/em> the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions. In this brilliant book, Isabel gives the readers 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.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
One might ask what even is caste?\u00a0<\/span>According to Isabel<\/a>,<\/p>\n\n“caste is the granting or withholding of respect, status, honor, attention, privileges, resources, benefit of the doubt, and human kindness to someone on the basis of their perceived rank or standing in the hierarchy.”<\/h6>\n
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Reading the definition of caste provided by Isabel, one might see the correlation between racism and caste, which certainly does overlap and Wilkerson notes further that<\/p>\n
\n\u00a0“what some people call racism could be seen as merely one manifestation of the degree to which we have internalized the larger American caste system.”<\/h6>\n
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Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people\u2019s lives and behaviour and the nation\u2019s fate. In her book, Isabel links the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany and further defines eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including a divine will, heredity, bloodlines, stigma and dehumanization.<\/p>\n
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This beautifully written, original, and revealing book is\u00a0an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and American life today.<\/p>\n
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One might ask what even is caste?\u00a0<\/span>According to Isabel<\/a>,<\/p>\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n Reading the definition of caste provided by Isabel, one might see the correlation between racism and caste, which certainly does overlap and Wilkerson notes further that<\/p>\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people\u2019s lives and behaviour and the nation\u2019s fate. In her book, Isabel links the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany and further defines eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including a divine will, heredity, bloodlines, stigma and dehumanization.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This beautifully written, original, and revealing book is\u00a0an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and American life today.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n
“caste is the granting or withholding of respect, status, honor, attention, privileges, resources, benefit of the doubt, and human kindness to someone on the basis of their perceived rank or standing in the hierarchy.”<\/h6>\n
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\u00a0“what some people call racism could be seen as merely one manifestation of the degree to which we have internalized the larger American caste system.”<\/h6>\n