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Caste

The Origins of Our Discontents

by Isabel Wilkerson

Recommended by 12 notable people, including Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey

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Recommended by 16 sources and appears in Thought Provoking, Criminal Law, and Sociology.

The Pulitzer Prize?winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.?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 ...

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Recommended by 16 sources and appears in Thought Provoking, Criminal Law, and Sociology.

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Anthony Scaramucci

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Ron Fournier

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