This book has been on my TBR for a long time. Basically since it came out. It’s an Oprah’s Book Club pick, and it was longlisted for the National Book Award. It also feels like everyone, but everyone, was talking about this book. So I was excited to finally find an audio copy available. The premise of Caste is straightforward: Wilkerson posits that the racial inequality we see in America is really a system of caste, where the distinguishing features of the hierarchy happen to […]
“A caste system endures because it is often justified as divine will, originating from sacred text or the presumed laws of nature, reinforced throughout the culture and passed down through the generations.”
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabelle Wilkerson