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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • 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.
“An instant American classic.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
“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.”
In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.
Beyond 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, 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. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their out-cast of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against; she writes about the surprising health costs of caste, in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity.
Beautifully written, original, and revealing, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today.
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就，很糟吧。。。就是明明我很支持这个议题的，但是作者对历史学，社会学跟跨文化比较的了解在正经大学都要不及格的。并不是把一堆事请炒在一起，加上一些名人名言的佐料，就能写出有深度的书。所以我是很怕写作技巧特别高的作者。往往写得实在太好，难免怀才自负，不去深入学习想要报道的内容，光靠文笔就满收嘉奖。花了时间去读这四百页的书心累。。。
评分##比较了美国、印度、德国的“Caste”，用“Caste”来分析美国的racism，有很多具体的残酷的例子和作者的亲身经历，"The issue of caste was, to my mind, the basis of every other -ism" (171).这是她这本书有意思的地方之一，“the issue of Caste”指的是那八个pillars，也指人们先是divide然后rank (assign values to different position)的思维方式。如果critical一点来说，我觉得她太乐观了，而对有两个例子（教授和奥巴马）的分析似乎仍然含有作为知识分子的优越感，在想要废除一种ranking的同时又维护另一种ranking
评分##Africa has no black people.
评分##最打动我的反而不是长篇说理，而是琐碎日常中的microaggression。那些隐隐作痛的歧视，全部都经历过。
评分##缺乏分析力度，但依然是一口气读完的那类书。在美国十余年，是就读于南方私校的中国学生，是混迹于性别与种族不平等行业的亚裔女性，却终于自己找了这些该听过的故事来听。
评分##Africa has no black people.
评分##扣一星的缺点：试图伪装成社会学书，但不是，这是一本带有强烈个人情感和控诉的美国黑人民族史（不是指这样写不好，但总还是不太真诚）。有很多具体事例是可以引起强烈通感的。现在美国在明面上很少有明目张胆的种族歧视（尽管川任内有回潮），但很多极消磨人精力的隐性歧视让黑人始终活在提心吊胆的高压中，比如作者穿着一身职业裙装出差依然被缉毒警察在机场大巴上拦截和尾随受尽其他乘客侧目，让她在接下来的工作中无法保持平静。这些心情非黑人群体根本无法切身体会。黑人在美国种姓制度的位置之低也引发了一种社会现象：白人移民来到美国后会迅速美国化，而其他中产黑人移民会刻意保留自己的非洲/中美洲口音并强调自己的移民身份，以示自己与美国黑人的区分。
评分##比较差劲的社会学分析。不过当做听力材料还可以，勉强能够听懂，因为它主题重复。从德国纳粹/印度种姓/美国黑人开始，分成8Pillars论述美国社会中方方面面的caste制度。然而每篇都是先讲故事然后再重复一遍主题。用多得不可思议的比喻来描绘caste。 不像社会学著作。但是如果真的开始社会哲学了，估计我也听不懂(=_=)，所以保留三星。
评分就，很糟吧。。。就是明明我很支持这个议题的，但是作者对历史学，社会学跟跨文化比较的了解在正经大学都要不及格的。并不是把一堆事请炒在一起，加上一些名人名言的佐料，就能写出有深度的书。所以我是很怕写作技巧特别高的作者。往往写得实在太好，难免怀才自负，不去深入学习想要报道的内容，光靠文笔就满收嘉奖。花了时间去读这四百页的书心累。。。
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