CASTE - THE ORIGIN OF OUR DISCONTENTS - ISABEL WILKERSON

Libro

Editorial	PENGUIN
Edad	Adultos
Idioma	Inglés Internacional
Autor	WILKERSON ISABEL
ISBN	9780141995465
Peso ( kg )	0,359
Tipo	Soporte Físico
Año de edición	2023
Formato	TAPA RUSTICA
Sinopsis	CASTE - THE ORIGIN OF OUR DISCONTENTS "Powerful and timely ... I cannot recommend it strongly enough" - Barack Obama Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson provides a profound, eye-opening portrait of this hidden phenomenon. This is the story of how our world was shaped by caste, and how its rigid, arbitrary hierarchies still divide us today. 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 we can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity. ISABEL WILKERSON Isabel Wilkerson born 1961 is an American journalist and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 2010 and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents 2020 . She is the first woman of African-American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism. Wilkerson was the editor-in-chief of the Howard University college newspaper, interned at the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post, and became the Chicago Bureau Chief of The New York Times. She also taught at Emory, Princeton, Northwestern, and Boston University. Wilkerson interviewed over a thousand people for The Warmth of Other Suns, which documents the stories of African Americans who migrated to northern and western cities during the 20th century. Her book Caste describes the racial hierarchy in the United States as a caste system. Both books were best-sellers Edad: adultos
Cantidad de páginas	528
Fecha Ingreso	01-01-0001