Imprint: Allen Lane
Published: 04/08/2020
ISBN: 9780241486511
Length: 496 Pages
Dimensions: 240mm x 43mm x 162mm
Weight: 742g
RRP: £20.00
THE TIME NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
'Required reading for all of humanity' Oprah Winfrey
'It could not have come at a more urgent time' Fatima Bhutto, Guardian
'An instant American classic' Dwight Garner, The New York Times
'The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power - which groups have it and which do not'
Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hidden phenomenon. Linking America, India and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson reveals how our world has been shaped by caste - and how its rigid, arbitrary hierarchies still divide us today.
With clear-sighted rigour, Wilkerson unearths the eight pillars that connect caste systems across civilizations, and demonstrates how our own era of intensifying conflict and upheaval has arisen as a consequence of caste. Weaving in stories of real people, she shows how its insidious undertow emerges every day; she documents its surprising health costs; and she explores its effects on culture and politics. Finally, Wilkerson points forward to the ways we can - and must - move beyond its artificial divisions, towards our common humanity.
Beautifully written and deeply original, Caste is an eye-opening examination of what lies beneath the surface of ordinary lives. No one can afford to ignore the moral clarity of its insights, or its urgent call for a freer, fairer world.
Imprint: Allen Lane
Published: 04/08/2020
ISBN: 9780241486511
Length: 496 Pages
Dimensions: 240mm x 43mm x 162mm
Weight: 742g
RRP: £20.00
If you haven't read Caste yet, you absolutely must.
Powerful and timely ... I cannot recommend it strongly enough
Magnificent. Profound. Eye-opening. Sobering. Hopeful.
Caste forced me to rethink how deeply embedded our unexamined preconceptions are
Extraordinary ... an instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far ... It's a book that changes the weather inside a reader.
Such is Wilkerson's gift as a writer that she leaves you looking at the world differently.
Caste will spur readers to think and to feel in equal measure
Isabel Wilkerson's Caste is probably the most important piece of non-fiction published this year.
Surprising and arresting... Like a prayer for a country in pain, offering new directions through prophetic new language
A consummate storyteller ... Isabel Wilkerson has written important book that reminds us of a comradeship of interwoven histories.