Wilkerson, Isabel <br/><br/>
Caste :  the lies that divide us / 
Isabel Wilkerson 
 - United Kingdom  Allen Lane  2020 
 - 476 p. 
<br/><br/> 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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>Beautifully written and deeply original, Caste is an eye-opening examination of what lies beneath the surface of ordinary lives. No one can afford to ignore the moral clarity of its insights, or its urgent call for a freer, fairer world. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780241486511 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social stratification<br/>Caste<br/>Power (Social sciences)<br/>Race relations<br/>United States<br/>Ethnicity<br/>Social classes<br/>Classism
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.5122 WIL-I