A review by jarshi
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

Books like these always shock me because it makes me highly aware of the things some people in the U.S. don’t have to grow up learning. It also makes me deeply grateful that I had a parent and teachers who thought it important to teach me about my own history and why it is important to pay attention.

I can recall numerous instances in my own life, the lives of numerous family members, and the lives of my friends that could be tucked within the pages of this book and made examples. And sometimes thinking about that makes me so angry that I want to cry.