Caste : the origins of our discontents
- Format:
- book
- Title:
- Caste : the origins of our discontents
- Year:
- 2023
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- [London] : Penguin Books, 2023
- Description:
- Xvii, 500 p.
- Call number:
- SJS.BOEK.337.WILK.23 (SJS)
- ISBN:
- 9780141995465
- Subject:
- Sociale ongelijkheid Verenigde Staten
- Summary:
- 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.
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