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Caste
- Author
- Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrator
- Robin Miles
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 4 August 2020
- Run Time
- 14 hours 26 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Social classes, Social discrimination and social justice, Sociology, Far-right political ideologies and movements
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
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'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.
© Isabel Wilkerson 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Critics Review
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If you haven't read Caste yet, you absolutely must
Vogue
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Powerful and timely... I cannot recommend it strongly enough
Barack Obama
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Such is Wilkerson's gift as a writer that she leaves you looking at the world differently
Vogue
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Elegant and persuasive... Caste will spur readers to think and to feel in equal measure
New York Times Book Review
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Probably the most important piece of non-fiction published this year
i News
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A surprising and arresting wide-angle reframing... Her epilogue feels like a prayer for a country in pain, offering new directions through prophetic new language
Washington Post
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An expansive interrogation of racism, institutionalised inequality and injustice... This is an American reckoning and so it should be... It is a painfully resonant book and could not have come at a more urgent time
Guardian
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Persuasive and unsettling... The case Wilkerson puts forward is inspiring and hopeful... caste can be dismantled, setting everyone free
Observer
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Important and timely... If repudiation of past assumptions is the first step towards healing, Wilkerson's book offers a powerful frame for this. It is essential reading for anybody who feels angry, guilty or threatened by the tangled issue of "race" in America today
Financial Times
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Magisterial... [Wilkerson's] reporting is nimble and her sentences exquisite. But the real power of Caste lies tucked within the stories she strings together like pearls... Caste is a luminous read, bearing its own torch of righteous wrath in a diamond-hard prose that will be admired and studied by future generations of journalists
Star Tribune
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Details
- Author
- Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrator
- Robin Miles
- Duration
- 14 hours 26 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 August 2020
- ISBN
- 9780241503324
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Social classes, Social discrimination and social justice, Sociology, Far-right political ideologies and movements
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.'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.© Isabel Wilkerson 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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