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Caste (Oprah's Book Club)
- The Origins of Our Discontents
- Narrateur(s): Robin Miles
- Durée: 14 h et 26 min
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- Catégories: Sciences sociales et politiques, Sciences sociales
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Summary & Discussions of Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
- The Origins of Our Discontents (with Bonus Online Content)
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This is a summary and discussions of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, not the original book. All Americans can become awakened to the way we treat one another. We live in a wealthy nation that has little compassion for one another. The only way to start to change how Americans operate when working with one another is to put humanity back into the nation.
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The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.
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Meant for reading not listening
- Écrit par Christine Tan le 2019-01-26
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A woman teaches her niece to make a pair of beaded earrings while ruminating on a fractured relationship. An 11-year-old girl narrates the unfolding of the Fish Wars in the 1960s as her family is propelled to its front lines. In 1890, as tensions escalate at Wounded Knee, two young men at college - one French and the other Lakota - each contemplate a death in the family. In the final, haunting piece, a Nez Perce - Cayuse family is torn apart as they debate the fate of ancestral remains in a moving revision of the Greek tragedy Antigone.
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Empire of Pain
- The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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The prize-winning and best-selling author of Say Nothing presents a grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. Empire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling.
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It hurts to read this book.
- Écrit par Rosemarie Boll le 2021-05-10
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Stamped from the Beginning
- The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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Some Americans cling desperately to the myth that we are living in a post-racial society, that the election of the first Black president spelled the doom of racism. In fact, racist thought is alive and well in America - more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning, if we have any hope of grappling with this stark reality, we must first understand how racist ideas were developed, disseminated, and enshrined in American society.
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A must read!!!
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Summary & Discussions of Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
- The Origins of Our Discontents (with Bonus Online Content)
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This is a summary and discussions of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, not the original book. All Americans can become awakened to the way we treat one another. We live in a wealthy nation that has little compassion for one another. The only way to start to change how Americans operate when working with one another is to put humanity back into the nation.
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The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- Auteur(s): Isabel Wilkerson
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From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.
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Meant for reading not listening
- Écrit par Christine Tan le 2019-01-26
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The Beadworkers
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A woman teaches her niece to make a pair of beaded earrings while ruminating on a fractured relationship. An 11-year-old girl narrates the unfolding of the Fish Wars in the 1960s as her family is propelled to its front lines. In 1890, as tensions escalate at Wounded Knee, two young men at college - one French and the other Lakota - each contemplate a death in the family. In the final, haunting piece, a Nez Perce - Cayuse family is torn apart as they debate the fate of ancestral remains in a moving revision of the Greek tragedy Antigone.
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Empire of Pain
- The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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The prize-winning and best-selling author of Say Nothing presents a grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. Empire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling.
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It hurts to read this book.
- Écrit par Rosemarie Boll le 2021-05-10
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Stamped from the Beginning
- The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
- Auteur(s): Ibram X. Kendi
- Narrateur(s): Christopher Dontrell Piper
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Some Americans cling desperately to the myth that we are living in a post-racial society, that the election of the first Black president spelled the doom of racism. In fact, racist thought is alive and well in America - more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning, if we have any hope of grappling with this stark reality, we must first understand how racist ideas were developed, disseminated, and enshrined in American society.
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A must read!!!
- Écrit par William le 2022-01-25
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Writing My Wrongs
- Life, Death, and One Man's Story of Redemption in an American Prison
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The New Jim Crow
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Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times best seller list.
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Eye opening and bleak
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The Price of the Ticket
- Collected Nonfiction: 1948-1985
- Auteur(s): James Baldwin
- Narrateur(s): JD Jackson
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Personal and prophetic, these essays uncover what it means to live in a racist American society with insights that feel as fresh today as they did over the four decades in which he composed them. Longtime Baldwin fans and especially those just discovering his genius will appreciate this essential collection of his great nonfiction writing. Along with 46 additional pieces, it includes the full text of dozens of famous essays from such books as:
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White Evangelical Racism
- The Politics of Morality in America
- Auteur(s): Anthea Butler
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The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals plays a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. These evangelicals raise a starkly consequential question for electoral politics: Why do they claim morality while supporting politicians who act immorally by most Christian measures? In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle of American religion and politics, Anthea Butler answers that racism is at the core of conservative evangelical activism and power.
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This is the most racist and misleading book I’ve ever read.
- Écrit par Dayna le 2021-10-15
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The Source of Self-Regard
- Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
- Auteur(s): Toni Morrison
- Narrateur(s): Bahni Turpin
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Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection - a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades.
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A Bite-Sized History of France
- Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment
- Auteur(s): Stephane Henaut, Jeni Mitchell
- Narrateur(s): Derek Perkins
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From the cassoulet that won a war to the crêpe that doomed Napoleon, from the rebellions sparked by bread and salt to the new cuisines forged by empire, the history of France is intimately entwined with its gastronomic pursuits. A witty exploration of the facts and legends surrounding some of the most popular French foods and wines by a French cheesemonger and an American academic, A Bite-Sized History of France tells the compelling and often surprising story of France from the Roman era to modern times.
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Fascinating and fun:
- Écrit par gentlereader le 2021-05-04
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Democracy in Black
- How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
- Auteur(s): Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
- Narrateur(s): Kevin Free
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America's great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police to the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act to the disaster visited upon poor and middle-class black families by the Great Recession, it is clear that black America faces an emergency - at the very moment the election of the first black president has prompted many to believe we've solved America's race problem.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
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.
NAMED THE #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY People • The Washington Post • Publishers Weekly AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • O: The Oprah Magazine • NPR • Bloomberg • Christian Science Monitor • New York Post • The New York Public Library • Fortune • Smithsonian Magazine • Marie Claire • Town & Country • Slate • Library Journal • Kirkus Reviews • LibraryReads • PopMatters
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist • PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Longlist
“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 outcasting 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.
Ce que les critiques en disent
"This enthralling exposé deserves a wide and impassioned readership.” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
“Similar to her previous book, the latest by Wilkerson is destined to become a classic, and is urgent, essential reading for all.” (Library Journal, starred review)
"This is a brilliant book, well timed in the face of a pandemic and police brutality that cleave along the lines of a caste system.” (Booklist)
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- Richard Morrison
- 2020-09-13
Very good, but some unnecessary chapters
An excellent book, but the chapters on dog training, being interrupted by an upper caste woman and a few others could have been left out. In past wars, the winning side sometimes enslaved people on the conquered side, but only the United States ran an entire economy using slavery as its engine. The U.S. should treat slavery the way Germany treats Nazism: Ban the Confederate flag just as Germany bans the Nazi swastika. As Germany has no statues honouring Nazi leaders, the U.S. should not have any statues, schools, streets, lakes, rivers or anything else named after Confederate officers. As Germany did with the victims of the Holocaust, U.S. researchers should try to track down the names of slaves and embed medallions bearing their names in the streets near the plantations and other places where they worked.
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- Dani Belle
- 2021-08-08
Interesting, but questionable conclusions
I enjoyed how the author applied caste to racism against Black Americans, but I found some of her conclusions and statistics incorrect or misleading. She writes about the economic oppression (very true), but states that Blacks are the most economically oppressed race in America (not true). The statistics show quite clearly that Latin Americans (as well as others), are more economically oppressed. When I read something that doesn’t make sense (like that), I start to question other factual accounts.
There is no doubt that racism and oppression has been and still is, but leaning on extreme examples and not being clear with your conclusions to make your point leaves me unsatisfied.
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- JI
- 2020-09-06
FINALLY
This is the history lesson that we all know has been left out of the history books.
Recommend to anyone interested in learning more about the roots of racism on the planet.
“Gratitude for being alive for this.”
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- Lenora Miller
- 2020-09-06
Every human should read this book!
A complete insight into the history of caste in America....told with wisdom, honesty, humour and a deep understanding of our world. One of the top 5 books I’ve ever read.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-08-27
Bravo!!!
I haven’t and will not stop talking about this book. I think it should be mandatory reading for humankind.
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2020-08-11
One of the Most Important Teachings Ever Written
Caste is a masterpiece. What at first seems to be well known, the problem of prejudice and racism, begins to take on new meanings and perspectives as an enabler of a larger caste system. To say that this is vividly explained in the form of vignette stories is an understatement. As the author brings you with her through the depth and detail of her research I began to appreciate the amount of personal bravery it must have taken her to bring to light the more severe atrocities of the caste system. I was riveted and shocked and convinced of her overall explanation of caste in our society. Many modern phenomena are thoroughly explained by Caste. The knowledge in Caste is without doubt a gigantic leap forward in the understanding our real culture and a further gigantic step towards the end of modern day enslavements big and small.
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- Neha
- 2021-08-26
Read with Caution
This book is another tool to use in your understanding of the world - do not take it as gospel.
I appreciated the American history aspects of this book, however the author injects a lot of her personal opinions and feelings and presents them as proof of her argument. Though there is validity behind her argument of the caste system in America, the author appears to have lost the ability to look at things from any other context. According to the information in the book, I would be a lower-caste member, but instead of looking at the world solely through a caste lens, I see it from many different lenses. In doing so, I find I cannot agree with several of her statements.
Narration was clear, but far too slow. you should definitely speed it up.
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- brooke
- 2021-06-13
A++++++++
everyone MUST read. so well presented. SO EDUCATIONAL! the experiences and author kept me engaged and didn't want to stop listening!
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- Sakina
- 2021-06-12
Thank you
Love the detail. Enjoyed the points in history for my own research.
Should be added to school curriculums everywhere.
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- Adele
- 2020-12-23
Not credible
Répétitive and boring
Unsubstantiated
The caste system exists in India. She fails to prove it does in the USA. Simply a reincarnation of racism.
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- GM
- 2020-08-05
Brilliant, articulate, highly listenable.
Old white guy here, if that matters. I have to say I was gobsmacked at how good this is. I was anxious to read it after reading the glorious NYT review, so I got it the day it was released (yesterday) and just finished it. Wilkerson's reportage, analysis, synthesis, and conclusions are spectacularly insightful. Everything she says resonates so perfectly that throughout the book I was thinking, "Ah hah! Yes. This is so illuminating. She has it just right!" And that was my tone consistently. There were no lulls, no head-scratching off-shoots. If someone living in the US or curious about the US reads only one book even only tangentially related to race, let it be this one. Goodness, what a terrific book. And the narration by Robin Miles is flawless. Wow.
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- Michael
- 2020-08-15
Detailed instances -- but not much explanation.
To start, I have to say that I think this book deserves a 4-star rating as a detailed narrative of the actions of certain individuals who were interested in maintaining a caste style hierarchy of others based on skin color. However, I found it a bit short-sighted and was personally disappointed in this work.
That said, as an individual reader, I think I was just expecting something different than what this book actually is, and that led me to the 2-star rating.
I eagerly awaited the publication of this book, hoping that it would be a deeply researched tome that would provide illumination for race relations in the United States. Seeing the title of "Caste" had me believe that this discussion would go beyond the binary frames that usually are associated with discourses on racism by using the lens of caste hierarchy. As the book went on, however, I found the intricate retelling of past atrocities against individual African Americans--which most of the book is dedicated to--akin to a rehashing of past work. Instead of establishing a new frame using caste, I found that on many occasions, the phrases of "dominant caste" and "subordinate caste" were just replacements for the words "white people" and "black people", and I didn't get the sense that the investigation was meant to go beyond that. Discussions of India's and the Nazi's caste systems were scant, and never really were raised to the same level of comparison as those of America's Jim Crow and Antebellum south.
To be clear, this isn't to say that these stories aren't significant to be reminded of, especially during our current moment. But it provides readers with more of an explanation of WHAT happened to certain individuals at a very particular time, rather than providing a fuller picture of the WHY these things happen, and the deeper implications of those actions both on the victims and the aggressors. That's where this book didn't reach the expectations that I had for it -- which admittedly, may have been misplaced.
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- Devin
- 2020-08-05
Pretty good. Not a lot of new insights.
I thoroughly enjoyed The Warmth of Other Suns so I couldn’t wait to listen to her new book. I would definitely give “Warmth” a 5-star rating but couldn’t say Caste is on that same level. Her writing style is great and the narration is enjoyable. I don't think that you can argue with the premise that we have -- or at least have had -- a caste system based on race in the United States. However, I did feel that some of the personal anecdotes could have been left out. At least for me they weren’t needed to reinforce her point and I found some of them to be a stretch. Any time you attempt to assign race as the sole factor behind the motives and actions of an entire group it’s going to be problematic. You could argue that there are a number of factors influencing the situations she attributed to our race-based caste system in the book but then again who am I to question someone's lived experience. I just felt that there were times while listening that she had a hammer and everything was a nail.
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- valerie
- 2020-08-06
I Loved It
I could hardly wait to read this book. I read The Warmth of other Suns and loved it. I really believe it should be used in urban high schools as a history book. At it’s core this book is also a history book. But it is a very good book. I learned so much from reading this book. Makes me feel every worse about our ancestors than I did before. The strength of the book are the true stories and examples given. Especially when it relates events I was aware of but didn’t know all of the details.
RECOMMENDATION: Read It and share it with others
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- Alan L.
- 2020-08-08
You owe it to yourself to read this book
Part narrative, history, sociology, anthropology, biography, and auto-biography. Above all else, a fresh metaphor that reframes the most vital American tragedy.
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- Joel Z.
- 2020-08-06
A must read for everyone
A fresh take on the social disparity in the U.S. and around the world. I hope that we all realize that we are living under a Caste system and that we need to change our course or we will continue with the divisines in this country. At worst, we will elect someone that will profit from our differences and destroy our nation. At best, we will continue with the status quo.
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- Tracy
- 2020-08-06
Caste is Powerful!!!
Amazingly Awakening!!!Powerful Brutatly Honest, The Real Truth-the tacit truth about America !!! EYE Opening!!!!!!!!!
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- Lonnie Butler
- 2020-08-05
didn't like the book. struggled to listen. the ton
didn't like the topic,. the tone was dry. struggled to listen. needed more details .
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- Stark Twain
- 2020-09-09
Eloquent, Repetitive
This book is eloquently written, expertly composed, and reads like a critical theory essay fattened into a book.
I could see “Caste” becoming tremendously useful in an academic setting, or as tool for readers to explore a new concept. It is a useful introductory book, and would be instructive in a high school or college class that further explored the subject.
However, if you’re already familiar with the thesis of a race-based caste system existing in the modern United States, this book doesn’t add much to the conversation. I wanted a deeper dive on the subject, but this book felt topical, summative, and distinctly one-sided.
The second half of the book was dedicated to thorough discussions of anecdotal microagressions toward the author. This came across as indulgent, tangential, and only indirectly constructive. It caused a distinct tone shift from academic analysis to elegant personal complaint.
“Caste” is artfully written and I can see it making a lasting place for itself in American literature. However, if you’ve taken any African American studies courses in the past 20 years, or been active in current social discourse on the topic, I don’t think you will find anything new here.
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Histoire
- Amazon Customer
- 2020-08-17
disappointed
badly researched, author all over the place mostly based on left propaganda, I had good hopes for this book after hearing the author on Stay Tuned with Preet, very disappointed
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