TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilkerson,Isabel
TI  - Caste: the lies that divide us 
SN  - 9780241486511
U1  - 305.5122 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - UK
PB  - Penguin Random House
KW  - Caste-based discrimination
KW  - United States
KW  - Ethnicity
KW  - Social Classes
KW  - Social stratification
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part one. Toxins in the permafrost and heat rising all around -- part two. The arbitrary construction of human divisions -- part three. The eight pillars of caste -- part four. The tentacles of caste -- part five. The consequences of caste -- part six. Backlash -- part seven. Awakening
N2  - '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
ER  -