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Caste

Hardcover • 2020 • English • 1. edition

Caste: the lies that divide us

By Wilkerson, Isabel

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About the book

From Pulitzer Prize winner, Isabel WilkersonHaunting yet strangely consoling, in a world defined by its divides, Caste connects. - Johny Pitts In this powerful and extraordinarily timely social history, Wilkerson investigates the origins, evolution, and inner workings of America's "shape-shifting, unspoken" caste system. Tracking the inception of the country's race-based "ranking of human value" to the arrival of the first slave ship in 1619, Wilkerson draws on the work of anthropologists, genet...Show more

Social discrimination and social justice
Social classes
History of the Americas

Book details

ISBN

9780241486511

Publisher

Allen Lane

Published year

2020

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Caste

Format

Hardcover

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