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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

by Isabel Wilkerson

★ Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction ★ BookTube Prize ★ Goodread’s Choice Awards – History & Biography ★ Kirkus Prize ★ National Book Award for Non-Fiction Longlist ★ New York Time’s Notable Book ★ President Obama’s Recommended Books ★ Smithsonian Magazine – 10 Best History Books of the Year

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 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 fac

Publisher: Random House
Publication date: 2020
Format: Print edition
Pages: 496
ISBN: 9780593230251

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History: Social History Social Science: Social Classes & Economic Disparity Social Science: Sociology – Social Theory

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