TY  - BOOK
AU  - Isabel Wilkerson
TI  - CASTE : Lies That Divide Us
SN  - 9780241486511
U1  - 305.5122 
PY  - 2020////01/01
CY  - UK
PB  - Allen Lane
KW  - Power (Social sciences)
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Social stratification
KW  - United States
KW  - Caste - United States
KW  - Ethnicity
N1  - 'The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power - which groups have it and which do not'Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hidden phenomenon. Linking America, India and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson 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, Wilkerson points forward to the ways we can - and must - move beyond its artificial divisions, towards our common humanity.Beautifully written and deeply original, Caste is an eye-opening examination of what lies beneath the surface of ordinary lives. No one can afford to ignore the moral clarity of its insights, or its urgent call for a freer, fairer world; The man in the crowd --
Toxins in the permafrost and heat rising all around --
The arbitrary construction of human divisions --
The eight pillars of caste --
The tentacles of caste --
The consequences of caste --
Backlash --
Awakening --
Epilogue: A world without caste
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