Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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


Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson is an adult non-fiction book, originally published on August 4, 2020.

Caste is a groundbreaking, award-winning book 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]

Trigger Warnings

  • Anxiety
  • Assault
  • Blood
  • Death
  • Depression
  • Emotional abuse
  • Fire
  • Genocide
  • Gore
  • Gun violence
  • Misogyny
  • Physical abuse
  • Police brutality
  • Pregnancy
  • Profanity
  • PTSD
  • Racism
  • Rape
  • Sexism
  • Sexual abuse
  • Sexual assault
  • Sexual harassment
  • Slavery
  • Torture
  • Violence
  • War

Representation

An asterisk (*) indicates that the author openly identifies with that identity.

  • African American female author*

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