Caste - The Origins of Our Discontents. Nominiert: Dayton Literary Peace Prize, 2022. Nominiert: Kirkus Prize, 2022. Nominiert: National Book Award, 2022. Nominiert: National Book Critics Circle Awards, 2022. No
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| Verlag | Penguin Random House |
| Auflage | 2020 |
| Seiten | 544 |
| Format | 16,0 x 23,4 x 2,4 cm |
| Gewicht | 760 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | Oprah's Book Club |
| ISBN-10 | 0593230256 |
| EAN | 9780593230251 |
| Bestell-Nr | 59323025EA |
Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hidden phenomenon. Linking America, India and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson reveals how our world has been shaped by caste - and how its rigid, arbitrary hierarchies still divide us today. With clear-sighted rigour, Wilkerson unearths the eight pillars that connect caste systems across civilizations, and demonstrates how our own era of intensifying conflict and upheaval has arisen as a consequence of caste. Weaving in stories of real people, she shows how its insidious undertow emerges every day; she documents its surprising health costs; and she explores its effects on culture and politics. Finally, Wilkerson points forward to the ways we can - and must - move beyond its artificial divisions, towards our common humanity.Beautifully written and deeply original, Caste is an eye-opening examination of what li es beneath the surface of ordinary lives. No one can afford to ignore the moral clarity of its insights, or its urgent call for a freer, fairer world.
