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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

20 reviews

ebrown0789's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

This book was eye-opening. My only complaint is that I felt there were way too many analogies towards the beginning.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Slavery

Moderate: Violence, Gore, Rape, Slavery, Torture, Hate crime, Body horror, Child abuse, Genocide, and Physical abuse

Minor: Police brutality

beanjoles's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

If I could give this book more than 5 stars, I would. Caste explained for me so many elements of American society that I had sensed below the surface but never totally understood. This is the education that every American needs, particularly white or upper-caste Americans.  It is one of the most informative, moving, and necessary books I’ve ever read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Racism, Slavery, Torture, and Rape

Moderate: Antisemitism

f18's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.0

Even going into this after reading reviews and therefore knowing it was more US-centric than international, I found it disappointing. The writing structure is multiple anecdotes per chapter followed by a sum-up of what Wilkerson was wanting to illustrate with those stories. It was not very intersectional and rarely mentioned groups outside of black and white when discussing the United States. While the anecdotes definitely have value it read more like a pop-social science book to me, which I suppose is the author's intention but not to my taste in nonfiction.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, Murder, Sexual harassment, Hate crime, Violence, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, and Slavery

Moderate: Suicide, War, and Classism

Minor: Mass/school shootings, Rape, Sexism, Xenophobia, and Colonisation

tlilf's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Torture, and Violence

buttermellow's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Antisemitism, Death, Gore, Murder, Violence, and Slavery

Moderate: Grief, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, and Rape

Minor: Gun violence and Police brutality

whisper88's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.75

A classroom must read.

The audiobook version narrated by Robin Miles is a good way to get this down, especially if you are reading another lighthearted book at the time as literary "spoonful of sugar" because Caste is indeed a bitter pill to swallow. 

I'm glad I read it and I know I'll need to reread it to be able to better grasp it's intent, however I left me feeling like I just watched Django Unchained: more or less sick to my stomach. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Genocide, Racism, Racial slurs, and Violence

Moderate: Rape

julied's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Rape, Slavery, and Torture

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

thebespectacledbookworm's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Violence, Antisemitism, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, and Slavery

Minor: Torture, Rape, Police brutality, and Murder

walrus's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Racism, Violence, Hate crime, Genocide, Slavery, and Rape