Caste
From kwharrison13.com · Anti-library
Caste
| Full title | Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents |
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| Author | Isabel Wilkerson |
| Published | 2020 |
| Pages | 496 |
| Recommended | 2 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Wilkerson reads American race as a caste system, set beside India’s and Nazi Germany’s — the argument being that caste outlives the laws that created it. |
Where I heard about it
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Spotted at The King’s English Bookshop, Salt Lake City — September 2023 (Books photo album)
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Bearded Reader / Adam (@beardedreaderadam) — in a BookTok video of “nonfiction books to radicalize your reading.”
Connections
- Racism — the subject.
- Inequality — the structure Wilkerson is describing.
What links here
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