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100 1 Wilkerson, Isabel.
245 10 CASTE :|bTHE ORIGINS OF OUR DISCONTENTS /|cIsabel
Wilkerson.
250 Large print edition.
264 1 [Waterville, ME] :|bThorndike Press, a part of Gale, a
Cengage Company,|c2021.
264 4 |c©2020
300 709 pages (large print) ;|c23 cm.
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
340 |nlarge print|2rda
490 1 Thorndike Press large print nonfiction
500 "Oprah's Book Club 2020" -- Cover.
500 "Published in 2021 in arrangement with Random House..." --
Title page verso.
504 Includes bibliographic references and index (pages 687-
706).
505 00 |tA man in the crowd --|tPart 1. Toxins in the permafrost
and heat rising all around. 1. The afterlife of pathogens
;|tThe vitals of history ;|t2. An old house and an
infrared light ;|t3. An American untouchable ;|tAn
invisible program --|tPart 2. The arbitrary construction
of human divisions. 4. A long-running play and the
emergence of caste in America ;|t5. "The container we have
built for you" ;|t6. The measure of humanity ;|t7. Through
the fog of Delhi to the parallels in India and America ;
|t8. The Nazis and the acceleration of caste ;|t9. The
evil of silence --|tPart 3. The eight pillars of caste.
The foundations of caste: The Origins of Our Discontents ;
|tPillar number one: Divine will and the laws of nature ;
|tPillar number two: Heritability ;|tPillar number three:
Endogamy and the control of marriage and mating ;|tPillar
number four: Purity versus pollution ;|tPillar number five
: Occupational hierarchy: the Jatis and the Mudsill ;
|tPillar number six: Dehumanization and stigma ;|tPillar
number seven: Terror as enforcement, cruelty as means of
control ;|tPillar number eight: Inherent superiority
versus inherent inferiority --|tPart 4. The tentacles of
caste. Brown eyes versus blue eyes ;|t10. Central
miscasting ;|t11. Dominant group status threat and the
precarity of the highest rung ;|t12. A scapegoat to bear
the sins of the world ;|t13. The insecure alpha and the
purpose of an underdog ;|t14. The intrusion of caste in
everyday life ;|t15. The urgent necessity of a bottom rung
;|t16. Last place anxiety: packed in a flooding basement ;
|t17. On the early front lines of caste ;|t18. Satchel
Paige and the illogic of caste --|tPart 5. The
consequences of caste. 19. The euphoria of hate ;|t20. The
inevitable narcissism of caste ;|t21. The German girl with
the dark, wavy hair ;|t22. The Stockholm syndrome and the
survival of the subordinate caste ;|t23. Shock troops on
the borders of hierarchy ;|t24. Cortisol, telomeres, and
the lethality of caste --|tPart 6. Backlash. 25. A change
in the script ;|t26. Turning point and the resurgence of
caste ;|t27. The symbols of caste ;|t28. Democracy on the
ballot ;|t29. The price we pay for a caste system --|tPart
7. Awakening. 30. Shedding the sacred thread ;|tThe
radicalization of the dominant caste ;|t31. The heart is
the last frontier --|tEpilogue: A world without caste.
520 "'As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless
usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the
aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a
performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings
or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and
which do not.' In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson
gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in
America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply
researched narrative and stories about real people, how
America today and throughout its history has been shaped
by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human
rankings. Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a
powerful caste system that influences people's lives and
behavior and the nation's fate. Linking the caste systems
of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores
eight pillars that underlie caste systems across
civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma,
and more. Using riveting stories about people--including
Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball's Satchel Paige, a
single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and
many others--she shows the ways that the insidious
undertow of caste is experienced every day. She documents
how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to
plan their out-cast of the Jews; she discusses why the
cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung
for those in the middle to measure themselves against; she
writes about the surprising health costs of caste, in
depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this
hierarchy on our culture and politics. Finally, she points
forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and
destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in
our common humanity. Beautifully written, original, and
revealing, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is an eye
-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination
of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of
America life today."--|cPublisher's description from
regular print copy.
650 0 Caste|zUnited States.
650 0 Social stratification|zUnited States.
650 0 Ethnicity|zUnited States.
650 0 Power (Social sciences)|zUnited States.
650 0 Caste.
650 0 Social stratification.
650 0 Ethnicity.
650 0 Power (Social sciences)
651 0 United States|xRace relations.
655 7 Large type books.|2local
830 0 Thorndike Press large print nonfiction series.
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