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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><i>Caste&nbsp\;</i>by Isabel Wilkerson</p>
 \n<p><a href="https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S218C2266198" tit
 le="Caste">Click here to request or download.</a> Additional formats avail
 able in&nbsp\;<a href="https://toledo.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S218C226
 8712" title="Caste eBk &amp\; eAudio">eBook and eAudiobook</a>.</p>\n<p>In
  this brilliant book\, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of a
 n unseen phenomenon in America as she explores\, through an immersive\, de
 eply researched narrative and stories about real people\, how America toda
 y 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 beha
 vior and the nation's fate. Linking the caste systems of America\, India\,
  and Nazi Germany\, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste s
 ystems across civilizations\, including divine will\, bloodlines\, stigma\
 , and more. Using riveting stories about people--including Martin Luther K
 ing\, Jr.\, baseball's Satchel Paige\, a single father and his toddler son
 \, Wilkerson herself\, and many others--she shows the ways that the insidi
 ous undertow of caste is experienced every day. She documents how the Nazi
 s 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 bot
 tom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against\; she write
 s about the surprising health costs of caste\, in depression and life expe
 ctancy\, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. Fi
 nally\, 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 Ori
 gins of Our Discontents is an eye-opening story of people and history\, an
 d a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of 
 America life today.</p>\nhttps://toledo.libnet.info/event/11855401
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