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SUMMARY:Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
DESCRIPTION:TO JOIN THE MAILING LIST FOR  THE BOOK CLUB CLICK HERE.\n\nTo add books to the list of books to read next click here for the Google Form or here to view our Google document.\n\n\nOur next book club pick, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, will be discussed in October.\n\n\n\n\n“As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power—which groups have it and which do not.”\nBeyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Isabel 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. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity.”\n\n\n“A surprising and arresting wide-angle reframing . . . Her epilogue feels like a prayer for a country in pain, offering new directions through prophetic language.”—Bilal Qureshi, The Washington Post\n“A transformative new framework through which to understand identity and injustice in America.”—Justin Worland, Time\n\n\n\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87603629869\n\nMeeting ID: 876 0362 9869\n\n
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