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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
22 reviews
zombiezami's review against another edition
2.75
Graphic: Blood, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Classism, Antisemitism, Child death, Death, Hate crime, Misogyny, Rape, War, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Religious bigotry, Confinement, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Xenophobia, and Murder
Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy
Minor: Colonisation, Addiction, Abortion, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Infidelity, and Drug use
Casteismchaoticnostalgia's review
4.5
Graphic: Violence, Slavery, Death, Child abuse, Racism, Xenophobia, Classism, Murder, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Hate crime, Police brutality, Suicide, War, Forced institutionalization, and Grief
Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic and Sexism
Minor: Mass/school shootings
makiba's review
3.75
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Racism, Slavery, Murder, Physical abuse, and Death
Minor: Suicide
hannahwinston's review
4.0
While I knew a lot about the American Caste, I did not know how much it influenced Nazis. There were several lines that blew my mind but this one, about selling souvenirs from lynchings during the Jim Crow Era, knocked me off my feet:
“This was singularly American. Even the Nazis did not stoop to selling souvenirs of Auschwitz, wrote time magazine many years later.”
The biggest takeaway/reminder:
“Evil asks little of the dominant caste other than to sit back and do nothing. All that it needs from bystanders is their silent complicity in the evil committed on their behalf.”
Graphic: Hate crime, Kidnapping, Slavery, Antisemitism, Physical abuse, Racism, Death, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Classism, Confinement, Torture, and Colonisation
readandfindout's review
4.0
Themes: 4.5 stars
Perspective: 4 stars
Graphic: Medical trauma, Child death, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Hate crime, Genocide, Death, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Murder, Antisemitism, Torture, Classism, Grief, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Suicide, Child abuse, Xenophobia, Physical abuse, Colonisation, Gore, and War
Moderate: Misogyny
micaelamariem's review
4.0
Graphic: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Vomit, War, Blood, Child abuse, Classism, Colonisation, Cursing, Death of parent, Deportation, Pregnancy, Bullying, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Death, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Stalking, Ableism, Addiction, Alcohol, Antisemitism, Violence, Xenophobia, Suicide, and Torture
leneliest's review
4.0
Graphic: Death, Violence, Torture, Slavery, Religious bigotry, Racism, Hate crime, War, Colonisation, Police brutality, Murder, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Gore, Antisemitism, Classism, and Genocide
lpfoley's review
5.0
Moderate: Racism, Genocide, Violence, Physical abuse, Slavery, Medical trauma, and Hate crime
grubloved's review
also weird that india's caste system is a selling point but is honestly barely present in the book, and that nazi germany is consistently held up as another state creating an underclass (the goal wasn't an underclass of jews. it was no more jews. this is not very analogous to a caste system).
the alpha wolf chapter was also absolutely atrocious and i think is a really good example of a lot of the problems i had with the text. it was really strange for the book to claim that racism's big downsides are largely that naturally superior people who happen to be in the wrong caste can't assume their rightful place as leaders, and that naturally inferior people who are in the upper caste should be allowed to be ruled by their betters ??? it continually seems to insist that hierarchy is not the problem, but that it is simply a wrong hierarchy and that we should adjust to follow a better natural order. just really really strange to read in a book about racism.
i really enjoyed the pillars of caste section but the rest of it just wasn't the indepth reading i was here for.
Moderate: Torture
Minor: Confinement, Trafficking, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Classism, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Rape, Racial slurs, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Child death, Colonisation, Torture, Racism, and Murder
bi_n_large's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Racism, Torture, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, and Colonisation
Moderate: Child death, Terminal illness, Classism, and Death
Minor: Death of parent, War, and Grief