Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson

544 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history politics psychology race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions—now with a new Afterword by the...

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