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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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##笔力是真好，但是也真的毫无逻辑架构和内容深度，完全就是一整本African American受苦受罪事实堆砌史。 还以为能看到一些为什么当代美国社会如此分裂的深度解读，但是完全没有。光是史实和事件堆砌我不需要花这么多时间看这本啊，没有分析和想法的输出也太偷懒了吧…
评分##不推荐 感觉逻辑性很差 观点不够。干货太少
评分##扣一星的缺点：试图伪装成社会学书，但不是，这是一本带有强烈个人情感和控诉的美国黑人民族史（不是指这样写不好，但总还是不太真诚）。有很多具体事例是可以引起强烈通感的。现在美国在明面上很少有明目张胆的种族歧视（尽管川任内有回潮），但很多极消磨人精力的隐性歧视让黑人始终活在提心吊胆的高压中，比如作者穿着一身职业裙装出差依然被缉毒警察在机场大巴上拦截和尾随受尽其他乘客侧目，让她在接下来的工作中无法保持平静。这些心情非黑人群体根本无法切身体会。黑人在美国种姓制度的位置之低也引发了一种社会现象：白人移民来到美国后会迅速美国化，而其他中产黑人移民会刻意保留自己的非洲/中美洲口音并强调自己的移民身份，以示自己与美国黑人的区分。
评分##后半本书框架稀碎，分析也偏superficial，可能这种议题还是看正儿八经的社会学家写的会好一些吧
评分##[有聲書] 原來燈塔早就是燈塔了，也怪不得民逗一個個都現了黃皮兒納粹的原形。 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了。
评分##不推荐 感觉逻辑性很差 观点不够。干货太少
评分##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.
评分##比较了美国、印度、德国的“Caste”，用“Caste”来分析美国的racism，有很多具体的残酷的例子和作者的亲身经历，"The issue of caste was, to my mind, the basis of every other -ism" (171).这是她这本书有意思的地方之一，“the issue of Caste”指的是那八个pillars，也指人们先是divide然后rank (assign values to different position)的思维方式。如果critical一点来说，我觉得她太乐观了，而对有两个例子（教授和奥巴马）的分析似乎仍然含有作为知识分子的优越感，在想要废除一种ranking的同时又维护另一种ranking
评分##（听）种族问题，caste 角度来解释的，角度新颖。我听懂了也记不住，也不知道要怎么用。但是挺涨知识的，例如高加索人是怎么来的… 希望听了会有用吧
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