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Castas: As Origens do Nosso Descontentamento by Isabel Wilkerson

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lottpoet's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative slow-paced

3.75

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jess_westhafer's review against another edition

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I felt like I got everything out of this book I was going to in the pages I read. The ideas started to seem redundant, and I didn’t feel the need to keep going.

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sarahrosea's review against another edition

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informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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emotional informative reflective

4.5

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thedisabledreader's review against another edition

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emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

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shannahtan's review against another edition

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emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Read this for book club, and I actually think it reads pretty quickly, but I was pacing myself for discussion. I thought Wilkerson did a great job of weaving stories into her argument that race is out caste system in the US.

I thought the parallels between India’s caste system, race in America, and Nazis in Germany were compelling because they brought out the emotion in making you think “we’re not better than that kind of awful behavior.” and in some ways we’re worse.

It was honestly tough to read at times. It really made me reflect on how I’m upholding the caste system at work and in my personal life.

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challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

America's racism has established a caste system, and this examination of the similarities between the US, India, and Nazi Germany is powerful and compelling. Using this framework to address history as well as current societal and political issues makes for book that will make the reader reconsider what they think they know about why individuals and groups act the way they do around race.
Well researched without being dry, and including the author's experience as an African-American woman, it isn't a quick read due to the need to process the material.

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