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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
58 reviews
shadereads's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Murder, Hate crime, Slavery, Torture, and Racism
Moderate: Gun violence and Police brutality
Minor: Death of parent
leneliest's review against another edition
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
alexisgarcia's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Child abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Murder, Police brutality, Violence, Classism, Gun violence, Racism, Racial slurs, and Slavery
viporras's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Police brutality, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Antisemitism, Violence, Slavery, Genocide, Racism, Kidnapping, Xenophobia, War, and Death
tarines316's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Violence, Hate crime, Racism, Murder, Slavery, and Classism
Moderate: Antisemitism
Minor: Death of parent
kemrick19's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Violence, Slavery, Racism, Hate crime, Police brutality, Antisemitism, and Classism
Moderate: Death of parent and Colonisation
grubloved's review against another edition
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
torturedreadersdept's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Classism, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Torture, Trafficking, Violence, Misogyny, Deportation, Antisemitism, Child death, Police brutality, Slavery, and Xenophobia
arthur_harris's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Death of parent, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Racial slurs, Confinement, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Genocide, Police brutality, Child abuse, Cultural appropriation, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Colonisation, Slavery, Blood, Medical trauma, Racism, Child death, and Murder
jess_westhafer's review against another edition
Graphic: Genocide, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Antisemitism, Violence, Slavery, and Torture