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Two out of three in Caste bingo (is not a game I want to win)

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

February 23, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

I imagine at the end of the day this book is more like 3.5 stars that I am rounding up. I’d say it’s three star for what it is trying to do, but four stars if I take it at what (I thought) was face value. Which is to say, I just finished this book and feel 50/50 convinced by Wilkerson’s thesis that America suffers from a caste issue, as opposed to (or, above a) race issue. I am Indian-American, so taking a step back […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: American History, Black History, isabel wilkerson

wicherwill's CBR13 Review No:26 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: American History, Black History, isabel wilkerson ·
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“They did what human beings looking for freedom, throughout history, have often done. They left.”

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

February 17, 2021 by Sophia 3 Comments

My boyfriend read The Warmth of Other Suns (2010) by Isabel Wilkerson and suggested that I read it. I trust his judgment, but it didn’t hurt that it was named the best book of the year by a ton of publications. It also just sounded interesting. The Warmth of Other Suns is a non-fiction book about The Great Migration that occurred from 1915-1970. Coming into this novel, I was vaguely aware that a large number of Black Americans had moved up North after slavery ended, but that was […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: isabel wilkerson

Sophia's CBR13 Review No:6 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: isabel wilkerson ·
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“Caste is insidious and therefore powerful because it is not hatred, it is not necessarily personal. It is the worn grooves of comforting routines and unthinking expectations, patterns of a social order that have been in place for so long that it looks like the natural order of things.”

Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

January 18, 2021 by narfna 4 Comments

This was really interesting to read back to back with How to Be an Antiracist; they shed light on each other in weird ways. But they are also two very different books! My main takeaway from Caste is that Isabel Wilkerson is a great writer. I’m set to read her first book next month, and I’m now looking forward to it even more. She employs metaphor and other literary techniques in a way that you don’t normally see from non-fiction writers. It brings a depth […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, caste, isabel wilkerson, narfna, non fiction, Race, social history, sociology, the origins of our discontents

narfna's CBR13 Review No:4 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, caste, isabel wilkerson, narfna, non fiction, Race, social history, sociology, the origins of our discontents ·
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It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.

August 13, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR10Bingo – Underrepresented I chose this book for “Underrepresented” more because of the content than the specific author. In this book, Wilkerson tells a narrative history of the Great Migration through a few different interwoven stories of participants in the movement collected through interviews, public records, and plenty of other documents and evidence. The Great Migration in simple terms is the mass migration of Southern African Americans to northern and western cities in the US primarily from about 1910-1950 or so. Wilkerson treats the migration […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: cbr10bingo, isabel wilkerson, warmth of other suns

Post by vel veeter · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: cbr10bingo, isabel wilkerson, warmth of other suns ·
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They Didn’t Want to Leave, They Definitely Couldn’t Stay

February 28, 2017 by Lipton 4 Comments

“I was leaving the South/To fling myself into the unknown…./I was taking a part of the South/To transplant in alien soil,/To see if it could grow differently,/If it could drink of new and cool rains,/Bend in strange winds,/Respond to the warmth of other suns/And, perhaps, to bloom.”  – Richard Wright

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: 20th Century, 20th Century history, african american history, American History, history, isabel wilkerson, oral history, the warmth of other suns, U.S. history

Post by Lipton · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: 20th Century, 20th Century history, african american history, American History, history, isabel wilkerson, oral history, the warmth of other suns, U.S. history ·
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