05951cam a2200805 4500 898664102 TxAuBib 20230726120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593230268 0593230264 B084FLWDQG Amazon e995569a-f33f-41cc-8baa-f33f46d85098 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5257052 OverDrive (Product ID) 653196 653196 653196 TxAuBib Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste [Libby] : The Origins of Our Discontents. Random House Publishing Group, 2020. us history. politics. Black history. book club. Barack Obama. germany. american history. Frederick Douglass. World History. Civil War. Slavery. race. caste. History. India. Economics. freedom. injustice. gifts for dad. james baldwin. oprah's book club. history books. oprahs book club. political books. black authors. gifts for history buffs. african american books. history books for adults. books best sellers. black history books. best seller books. new york times best sellers. black authors best sellers. isabel wilkerson. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2350kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. History. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, <i>The New York Times</i></b><br /> <b>The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of <i>The Warmth of Other Suns</i> examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.</b><br /> <b>#1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR: <i>Time<br /></i>ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: <i>The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, O: The Oprah Magazine,</i> NPR, <i>Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, New York Post,</i> The New York Public Library, <i>Fortune, Smithsonian Magazine, Marie Claire, Slate, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews</i></b><br /> <b>Winner of the&#160;Carl Sandberg Literary Award •&#160;Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize&#160;• National Book Award Longlist •&#160;National Book Critics Circle Award&#160;Finalist&#160;•&#160;Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist • PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Longlist •&#160;Kirkus Prize Finalist</b><br /> <i>“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.”</i><br /> &#160;<br /> 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, and beautifully written 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.<br /> &#160;<br /> 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 outcasting 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.<br /> Original and revealing, <i>Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents</i> is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today. Media Type: eBook. National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. Notable Books for Adults. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-07-25 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e995569a-f33f-41cc-8baa-f33f46d85098&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e995569a-f33f-41cc-8baa-f33f46d85098&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e995569a-f33f-41cc-8baa-f33f46d85098&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXGID