A review by ktrain3900
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

challenging hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

Wilkerson has a gift for making serious, difficult topics not just readable but satisfying to read. Looking at the USA as a caste system was fascinating and enlightening. To view American history through this lense was eye-opening, however the real epiphany for me was viewing our most recent history this way: it seems to explain a lot of what often feels inexplicable. I found that the personal experience sections were the hardest to read. It was almost unbelievable that this sort of thing still happens, yet this is why these sections must be included. My experience as white woman shields me from a lot and I need to hear these things and sit in my discomfort. All in all this is a thought-provoking and dare I say potentinally life-altering read.