Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is a nonfiction book by the American journalist Isabel Wilkerson, published in August 2020 by Random House. The book describes racism in the United States as an aspect of a caste system—a society-wide system of social stratification characterized by notions such as hierarchy, inclusion and exclusion, and purity. Wilkerson does so by comparing aspects of the experience of American people of color to the caste systems of India and Nazi Germany, and she explore
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2020 book by Isabel Wilkerson
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste:_The_Origins_of_Our_Discontents
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2020-08-08T08:40:17Z
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2024-08-29T05:52:23Z
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