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CASTE - ISABEL WILKERSON GEBUNDEN

THE TIME NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Required reading for all of humanity' Oprah Winfrey'It
could not have come at a more urgent time' Fatima Bhutto  Guardian'An instant American classic'
Dwight Garner  The New York Times'The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It
is about power - which groups have it and which do not' Beyond race or class  our lives are
defined by a powerful  unspoken system of divisions. In Caste  Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hidden phenomenon. Linking America  India
and Nazi Germany  Wilkerson reveals how our world has been shaped by caste - and how its rigid
arbitrary hierarchies still divide us today. With clear-sighted rigour  Wilkerson unearths the
eight pillars that connect caste systems across civilizations  and demonstrates how our own era
of intensifying conflict and upheaval has arisen as a consequence of caste. Weaving in stories
of real people  she shows how its insidious undertow emerges every day  she documents its
surprising health costs  and she explores its effects on culture and politics. Finally 
Wilkerson points forward to the ways we can - and must - move beyond its artificial divisions 
towards our common humanity. Beautifully written and deeply original  Caste is an eye-opening
examination of what lies beneath the surface of ordinary lives. No one can afford to ignore the
moral clarity of its insights  or its urgent call for a freer  fairer world.

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