Caste
Autor Isabel Wilkersonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 feb 2023
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions—now with a new Afterword by the author.
#1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, O: The Oprah Magazine, NPR, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, New York Post, The New York Public Library, Fortune, Smithsonian Magazine, Marie Claire, Slate, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews
Winner of the Carl Sandberg Literary Award • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • National Book Award Longlist • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist • PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Longlist • Kirkus Prize Finalist
“As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power—which groups have it and which do not.”
In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched, and beautifully written narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.
Beyond 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, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people—including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball’s Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others—she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their outcasting of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against; she writes about the surprising health costs of caste, in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity.
Original and revealing, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780593230275
ISBN-10: 0593230272
Pagini: 544
Dimensiuni: 136 x 199 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Random House LLC US
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ISBN-10: 0593230272
Pagini: 544
Dimensiuni: 136 x 199 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Random House LLC US
Colecția Random House Trade Paperbacks
Notă biografică
Isabel
Wilkerson,
winner
of
the
Pulitzer
Prize
and
the
National
Humanities
Medal,
is
the
author
of
the
critically
acclaimed
New
York
Times
bestsellerThe
Warmth
of
Other
Suns.
Her
debut
work
won
the
National
Book
Critics
Circle
Award
for
Nonfiction
and
was
included
inTime's10
Best
Nonfiction
Books
of
the
2010s
and
inThe
New
York
Times's
list
of
the
Best
Nonfiction
of
All
Time.
She
has
taught
at
Princeton,
Emory,
and
Boston
Universities
and
has
lectured
at
more
than
two
hundred
other
colleges
and
universities
across
the
United
States
and
in
Europe
and
Asia.
Recenzii
If
you
haven't
readCasteyet,
you
absolutely
must.
Powerful and timely ... I cannot recommend it strongly enough
Magnificent. Profound. Eye-opening. Sobering. Hopeful.
Casteforced me to rethink how deeply embedded our unexamined preconceptions are
Extraordinary ...an instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far...It's a book that changes the weather inside a reader.
Such is Wilkerson's gift as a writer that she leaves you looking at the world differently.
Castewill spur readers to think and to feel in equal measure
Isabel Wilkerson'sCasteis probably the most important piece of non-fiction published thisyear.
Surprising and arresting...Like a prayer for a country in pain, offering new directions through prophetic new language
A consummate storyteller ... Isabel Wilkerson has written important book that reminds us of a comradeship of interwoven histories.
An expansive interrogation of racism, institutionalised inequality and injustice ... This is an American reckoning and so it should be. Wilkerson activates history in her pages, bringing all its horror and possibility to light. It is a painfully resonant book and could not have come at a more urgent time.
Persuasive and unsettling...The case Wilkerson puts forward is inspiring and hopeful...caste can be dismantled, setting everyone free.
Important and timely ... If repudiation of past assumptions is the first step towards healing, Wilkerson's book offers a powerful frame for this. It is essential reading for anybody who feels angry, guilty or threatened by the tangled issue of "race" in America today.
Searching, gorgeously crafted...Casteis a luminous read, bearing its own torch of righteous wrath in a diamond-hard prose that will be admired and studied by future generations.
A powerful, illuminating and heartfelt account of how hierarchy reproduces itself, as well as a call to action for the difficult work of undoing it.
Magnificent . . . a trailblazing work on the birth of inequality . . .Casteoffers a forward-facing vision. Bursting with insight and love, this book may well help save us
Wilkerson's genius as a writer is her ability to tell you the big story of what happened, but to make that story matter by linking it to the lives of those who survived it ... What in the hands of another writer would feel like an abstraction attains, in her work, the vividness and emotional power of lived experience.
Haunting yet strangely consoling, in a world defined by its divides,Casteconnects. It reveals the 'unseen skeleton' embedded in heinous acts of power but, in evocative prose that is full of poise, reminds us what's possible when people come together.I closed the book feeling enlightened and energised, ready to roll up my sleeves and get on with the good work.
Propulsive ... Should be required reading for generations to come.
A transformative new framework through which to understand identity and injustice.
Wonderful ... Prepare to have your mind expanded, your heart break and your head slowly shake by Wilkerson's sublime combination of skilful, analytical dissection and raw, emotional testimony
Castemakes a convincing, often scorching case that caste was there at the birth of the nation, and we wrestle every day with that legacy. It upsets the already rickety national myth that anyone in the United States can be anything -albeit, without entirely abandoning that hope
Vital, brilliant and necessary
Destined to become a classic ... urgent, essential reading for all.
It should be at the top of every American's reading list.
This enthralling exposé deserves a wide and impassioned readership
This is a brilliant book
Wilkerson's book arrives at a key inflection point, an opening for us to imagine, and then create, a system that's better than the one we've inherited.
Powerful and timely ... I cannot recommend it strongly enough
Magnificent. Profound. Eye-opening. Sobering. Hopeful.
Casteforced me to rethink how deeply embedded our unexamined preconceptions are
Extraordinary ...an instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far...It's a book that changes the weather inside a reader.
Such is Wilkerson's gift as a writer that she leaves you looking at the world differently.
Castewill spur readers to think and to feel in equal measure
Isabel Wilkerson'sCasteis probably the most important piece of non-fiction published thisyear.
Surprising and arresting...Like a prayer for a country in pain, offering new directions through prophetic new language
A consummate storyteller ... Isabel Wilkerson has written important book that reminds us of a comradeship of interwoven histories.
An expansive interrogation of racism, institutionalised inequality and injustice ... This is an American reckoning and so it should be. Wilkerson activates history in her pages, bringing all its horror and possibility to light. It is a painfully resonant book and could not have come at a more urgent time.
Persuasive and unsettling...The case Wilkerson puts forward is inspiring and hopeful...caste can be dismantled, setting everyone free.
Important and timely ... If repudiation of past assumptions is the first step towards healing, Wilkerson's book offers a powerful frame for this. It is essential reading for anybody who feels angry, guilty or threatened by the tangled issue of "race" in America today.
Searching, gorgeously crafted...Casteis a luminous read, bearing its own torch of righteous wrath in a diamond-hard prose that will be admired and studied by future generations.
A powerful, illuminating and heartfelt account of how hierarchy reproduces itself, as well as a call to action for the difficult work of undoing it.
Magnificent . . . a trailblazing work on the birth of inequality . . .Casteoffers a forward-facing vision. Bursting with insight and love, this book may well help save us
Wilkerson's genius as a writer is her ability to tell you the big story of what happened, but to make that story matter by linking it to the lives of those who survived it ... What in the hands of another writer would feel like an abstraction attains, in her work, the vividness and emotional power of lived experience.
Haunting yet strangely consoling, in a world defined by its divides,Casteconnects. It reveals the 'unseen skeleton' embedded in heinous acts of power but, in evocative prose that is full of poise, reminds us what's possible when people come together.I closed the book feeling enlightened and energised, ready to roll up my sleeves and get on with the good work.
Propulsive ... Should be required reading for generations to come.
A transformative new framework through which to understand identity and injustice.
Wonderful ... Prepare to have your mind expanded, your heart break and your head slowly shake by Wilkerson's sublime combination of skilful, analytical dissection and raw, emotional testimony
Castemakes a convincing, often scorching case that caste was there at the birth of the nation, and we wrestle every day with that legacy. It upsets the already rickety national myth that anyone in the United States can be anything -albeit, without entirely abandoning that hope
Vital, brilliant and necessary
Destined to become a classic ... urgent, essential reading for all.
It should be at the top of every American's reading list.
This enthralling exposé deserves a wide and impassioned readership
This is a brilliant book
Wilkerson's book arrives at a key inflection point, an opening for us to imagine, and then create, a system that's better than the one we've inherited.