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BOOK
Title Caste : the origins of our discontents / Isabel Wilkerson
Imprint New York : Random House, [2020]
©2020

1 hold on first copy returned of 1 copy
LIBRARY / MAP CALL NUMBER STATUS MESSAGE
 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 3 Samhällsvetenskap  305.5 engelska    DUE 24-04-09  ---
Edition First edition
Descript xvii, 476 sidor 24 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-453) and index
""As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not." In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. 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, 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 America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity. Beautifully written, original, and revealing, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of America life today"-- Provided by publisher
Subject Rasrelationer
Makt (samhällsvetenskap)
Kontroll (psykologi)
Social stratifiering
Social status
Social differentiering
Kastväsen -- historia
Caste -- United States
Social stratification -- United States
Ethnicity -- United States
Power (Social sciences) -- United States
HISTORY / Social History
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory
Förenta staterna
United States -- Race relations
Classmark 305.5122
Oabk
ISBN/ISSN 9780593230251 inbunden
9780593230268
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