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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.
“An instant American classic.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
“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 American life today.
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##不推薦 感覺邏輯性很差 觀點不夠。乾貨太少
評分##缺乏分析力度，但依然是一口氣讀完的那類書。在美國十餘年，是就讀於南方私校的中國學生，是混跡於性彆與種族不平等行業的亞裔女性，卻終於自己找瞭這些該聽過的故事來聽。
評分##[有聲書] 原來燈塔早就是燈塔瞭，也怪不得民逗一個個都現瞭黃皮兒納粹的原形。 PS: 不看短評區還真不知道我國人民群眾的美國黑人歷史基礎已經這麼深厚，對這種大雜燴式的綜述已經可以不屑一顧瞭。
評分##比較瞭美國、印度、德國的“Caste”，用“Caste”來分析美國的racism，有很多具體的殘酷的例子和作者的親身經曆，"The issue of caste was, to my mind, the basis of every other -ism" (171).這是她這本書有意思的地方之一，“the issue of Caste”指的是那八個pillars，也指人們先是divide然後rank (assign values to different position)的思維方式。如果critical一點來說，我覺得她太樂觀瞭，而對有兩個例子（教授和奧巴馬）的分析似乎仍然含有作為知識分子的優越感，在想要廢除一種ranking的同時又維護另一種ranking
評分###BLM 我已經說倦瞭。
評分##[有聲書] 原來燈塔早就是燈塔瞭，也怪不得民逗一個個都現瞭黃皮兒納粹的原形。 PS: 不看短評區還真不知道我國人民群眾的美國黑人歷史基礎已經這麼深厚，對這種大雜燴式的綜述已經可以不屑一顧瞭。
評分##本書將美國的種族主義與印度種姓製進行類比 讀完依舊覺得周而復始的種族主義風潮與應運而生的民權對抗運動的曆史淵源與成因難以進行非常清晰的界定 書中一些例證與論點有時邏輯聯係不夠緊密 但總體對這個論題的啓發性還是非常有意義的 美國作為一個移民國傢 建國伊始與移民初至的指導精神卻似乎不是和諧的民族大熔爐 移民在新國度的處事方式是迅速認定最有利其生存的階層鏈條 故而鞏固加劇瞭基於種族的阻隔 雖然曆史不長 但美國種族主義的存在年限從絕對值衡量和所占比例都是極高的 最打動我和令我贊許的是德國正視納粹時期曆史的國民態度 和教育中給予的重視程度 唯有深刻剖析曆史背景 強調沉重性 方能世代傳承正確前行的路徑
評分##Africa has no black people.
評分##People around the world known CASTE IS TALKING ABOUT AFRICA and has nothing to do with America (RACISM related instead). The weirdest thing is she compared US with Nazi….and I am so confused what is she want to talk about. Cuz she is writing a book making no sense and filling of her point of views.
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