Caste

Name: Caste
ISBN: 9780593230268

Isabel Wilkerson, Antonio Francisco Rodríguez Esteban

2020·496 pages·Nonfiction

History & Politics Science & Mind

💚 Oprah's Pick (2020)

“An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”
— Dwight Garner, The New York Times

Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Isabel 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. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity.

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