Caste : the lies that divide us
Wilkerson, Isabel2023
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In 'Caste', Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hidden phenomenon. Linking America, India and Nazi Germany, she reveals how our world has been shaped by caste - and how its rigid, arbitrary hierarchies still divide us today. With clear-sighted rigour, Wilkerson unearths the eight pillars that connect caste systems across civilizations, and demonstrates how our own era of intensifying conflict and upheaval has arisen as a consequence of caste. Weaving in stories of real people, she shows how its insidious undertow emerges every day; she documents its surprising health costs; and she explores its effects on culture and politics. Finally, the author points forward to the ways we can - and must - move beyond its artificial divisions, towards our common humanity.
Main title:
Caste : the lies that divide us / Isabel Wilkerson.
Author:
Wilkerson, Isabel, author
Edition:
[New edition] / with a new afterword by the author.
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2023.
Collation:
xvii, 500 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
"Oprah's Book Club 2020"--Front cover.Previous edition: New York: Random House, 2020.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780141995465 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
305.512209305.512305.5122305.51220973305.512 WILK
Language:
English
Related title:
Caste [electronic resource] : The International Bestseller
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BRN:
1192305
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