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  • The Origins of Our Discontents
  • Auteur(s): Isabel Wilkerson
  • Narrateur(s): Robin Miles
  • Durée: 15 h et 10 min
  • 4,8 out of 5 stars (517 évaluations)

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Caste (Oprah's Book Club)

Auteur(s): Isabel Wilkerson
Narrateur(s): Robin Miles
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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—now with a new Afterword by the author.

#1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, O: The Oprah Magazine, NPR, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, New York Post, The New York Public Library, Fortune, Smithsonian Magazine, Marie Claire, Slate, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews

Winner of the Carl Sandberg Literary Award • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • National Book Award Longlist • 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 • Kirkus Prize Finalist

“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, and beautifully written 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.

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.

©2020 Isabel Wilkerson (P)2020 Random House Audio

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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