Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent
Cover of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Author(s) Isabel Wilkerson
Published August 4, 2020
Publisher Random House
Genre(s) Nonfiction
Age group Adult


Summary: Caste is a groundbreaking, award-winning novel documenting the historical caste system underlying racial discrimination and subconscious hierarchy within the United States. Wilkerson explores the history of caste in the US, India, and Nazi Germany, how caste systems have learned from one another, and the lasting impacts that these biases have had on each country to this day. [1]

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