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Caste

The Origins of Our Discontents
  • Isabel Wilkerson
2020
Random House

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  • Chart of race-based castes.
    Book Review

    The Limits of Caste

    By neglecting the history of the Black diaspora, Isabel Wilkerson's "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" fails to reckon with systems of racial capitalism.
    by Hazel V. Carby via London Review of Books on January 21, 2021
  • Black man drinking from a segregated water fountain.
    Book Review

    Caste Does Not Explain Race

    The celebration of Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ reflects the continued priority of elite preferences over the needs and struggles of ordinary people.
    by Charisse Burden-Stelly via Boston Review on December 14, 2020
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