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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

14 reviews

annabunce's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Read this book. Isabel Wilkerson does a incredible job framing and explaining the American caste system within the context of other caste systems to fully illustrate the history of slavery and slavery's long lasting impact on Black Americans. I feel like reading this book I realized just how successful the American narrative has been at downplaying the horrors and systemic normalized racism faced by Black Americans. Definitely the kind of book that will shift your thinking and make you look at your world in a new way. This pulled back the curtain and made me consider Canada's own caste system in a whole new light. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Violence, Trafficking, Suicide, Slavery, Sexual violence, Rape, Police brutality, Murder, Medical trauma, Incest, Gun violence, Grief, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Antisemitism, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, and Child abuse

plantbasedbride's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

 Wow. What a worldview shattering book.

The way Wilkerson compares the American system to the Caste system in India and the modified Caste system imposed by the Nazis seems, at first, like a stretch. But impeccably organized chapter by impeccably organized chapter, the picture begins to take shape. And by the end of this horrifying yet clarifying work, the comparison seems to be the most natural one you could make.

Concise yet detailed, and perfectly narrated by Robin Miles, this may be the most eye-opening book on race in America that I have ever read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Violence, Child abuse, and Death

mignonne's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Antisemitism, Child death, Child abuse, Death, Genocide, Grief, Hate crime, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Slavery, and Torture

miascupoftea's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

It’s a very dark book, but definitely something everyone who can push through the heavy parts should read. very informative and great insights 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Child death, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Genocide, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, and Xenophobia