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A #1 New York Times Bestseller An Oprah’s Book Club Pick National Book Award Longlisted Longlisted For The Pen/Jean Stein Book Award and the Pen/John Kenneth Galbraith Award For Nonfiction An O: The Oprah Magazine Best Book of the Year A Time Magazine #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year A People #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly 10 Best Books of the Year A Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A Washington Post 10 Best Books of the YearBeyond 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, Isabel Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations. Using riveting stories about people, she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. Wilkerson explores how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by this hidden caste system and points to ways America can move toward hope in our common humanity.

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

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This enthralling exposé deserves a wide and impassioned readership.”

Similar to her previous book, the latest by Wilkerson is destined to become a classic, and is urgent, essential reading for all.”

This is a brilliant book, well timed in the face of a pandemic and police brutality that cleave along the lines of a caste system.”

Magnificent . . . a trailblazing work on the birth of inequality . . . CASTE offers a forward-facing vision. Bursting with insight and love, this book may well help save us.”

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