Kyle Harrison
to-read
Caste
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
- Author
- Isabel Wilkerson
- Published
- 2020
- Pages
- 496
- Recommended
- 2 times
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.