# Caste

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- Book: [Caste](https://www.bookquiver.com/isabel-wilkerson/caste) ([Caste.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/isabel-wilkerson/caste.md))
- Authors: [Isabel Wilkerson](https://www.bookquiver.com/isabel-wilkerson)
- Publisher: allen_lane
- Medium: audio
- Length: 14 h 26 min
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- ISBN: 978-02-4150-332-4
- Published: 2020-08-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 14 h 26 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. 'The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power - which groups have it and which do not' 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 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. 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. © Isabel Wilkerson 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020