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CASTE - ISABEL WILKERSON KARTONIERT (TB)

THE TIME NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPowerful and timely ... I
cannot recommend it strongly enough - Barack ObamaBeyond race or class  our lives are defined
by a powerful  unspoken system of divisions. In Caste  Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel
Wilkerson provides a profound  eye-opening portrait of this hidden phenomenon. This is the
story of how our world was shaped by caste  and how its rigid  arbitrary hierarchies still
divide us today. 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 we can move beyond the artificial and destructive
separations of human divisions  toward hope in our common humanity. 'Required reading for all
of humanity' Oprah WinfreyIf you haven't read it yet  you absolutely must. - Edward Enninful 
Vogue'An instant American classic' Dwight Garner  The New York Times

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