Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents

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Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents

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Caste refers to a human-constructed hierarchy that assigns value to different groups. Immigrant workers are victims of a caste system that promotes racism and allows human beings to hire other human beings (of color) under 19th century working conditi... Read More

Caste is compelling and enlightening at the same time. A scholarly read, well-researched, yet still highly readable.

Wilkerson explores the philosophical, moral, social, and political commitments that support and perpetuate castes. She gives life to the feelings of hopelessness or anger that cannot be expressed without the personal touch. She provides guidance as to... Read More

Isabel wilkerson does an excellent job of defining how lawmakers with certain caste ideals continue to pass laws that break down the rights of marginalized people. Isabel. Wilkerson.

Cons

Some of her historical facts are so skewed that they were intellectually dishonest. Her reliance on anecdote itself, rather than broader data, is not well-grounded.

Caste is an attempt to capitalize on an astonishingly misunderstood and misnomered topic, further sensationalizing and deploying it, perhaps unconsciously, as the author seems extraordinarily misinformed. Comparing slavery and a caste system to what t... Read More

It’s plainly inaccurate, though. This is wrongheaded.

Isabel wilkerson promotes the old, worn out adage that it is one dominate race that keeps the other race in perpetual low status. She begins the book extolling the virtues of the democratic party and vilifying republicans. She constantly serves up the... Read More

It's all very myopic and oversimplified. There’s a word for the leverage of inaccuracy toward hyperbole.

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Quality

Very detailed description of the title of book.

The details, the history, the connective nature of the subject matter was developed in such a way that it left me memorized!

This fault line can destroy us or be openly recognized and escaped.

But like all complex statements, it is not comprehensive enough.

Price

Great deal of information that shapes ubiquitous world view, with the chance to turn the mirror on ourself.

Shipping

I arrived in india in 1951, four years after indian independence from britain.

Your service was good and delivery error not your fault , thank you .

Competitiveness

Comparing these different countries helps the reader to understand how crazy the caste construct is.

~imo the author very convincingly expounds on her theory that the usa has operated under an extremely damaging race-orientated ... Read More

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This product had a total of 46,291 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 10 2024.