{"id":47367,"date":"2020-10-05T11:12:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T15:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=47367"},"modified":"2020-09-24T16:41:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T20:41:22","slug":"caste-the-origins-of-our-discontents-by-isabel-wilkerson-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/caste-the-origins-of-our-discontents-by-isabel-wilkerson-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-47338\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/09\/Caste-Isabel-Wilkerson-BookDragon-525x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/09\/Caste-Isabel-Wilkerson-BookDragon-525x800.jpg 525w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/09\/Caste-Isabel-Wilkerson-BookDragon.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/>In writing her now-classic\u00a0<em>The Warmth of Other Suns\u00a0<\/em>(2010), Pulitzer-Prized (and first Black woman so honored) Isabel Wilkerson reveals in her highly<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>anticipated follow-up, \u201cwhile working on &#8230; <em>Suns<\/em>, I was not writing about geography and relocation, but about the American caste system, an artificial hierarchy in which most everything that you could and could not do was based upon what you looked like.\u201d\u00a0The already Oprah-anointed bestseller couldn\u2019t be more timely \u2013 amidst the relentless devolution of political leadership, pandemic, police violence, and widespread protests, Wilkerson\u2019s latest is both expos\u00e9 and antidote.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran narrator Robin Miles provides a well-tuned aural amplifier. Thoughtful and controlled, Miles ensures Wilkerson is succinctly heard: \u201cCaste is the bones, race the skin &#8230;Caste is the powerful infrastructure that holds each group in place.\u201d Unmasking disturbing parallels with caste systems in India (illegal-but-socially-extant) and Nazi Germany (where the U.S.\u2019s \u2018one-drop rule\u2019 was deemed too harsh!), Wilkerson confronts oppressive U.S. hierarchies of inequity.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, while virtually every sentence is pithily quotable, Wilkerson\u2019s tendency to repeat and prolong her brilliant ideas could grow tedious. That said, to be fed illuminating ideas on repeat gives hope that awareness solidifies to promulgate lasting change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Caste-The-Origins-of-Our-Discontents-\/pid=9739598\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&#8220;Media,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Booklist<\/em>, October 1, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In writing her now-classic\u00a0The Warmth of Other Suns\u00a0(2010), Pulitzer-Prized (and first Black woman so honored) Isabel Wilkerson reveals in her highly\u00a0anticipated follow-up, \u201cwhile working on &#8230; Suns, I was not writing about geography and relocation, but about the American caste system, an artificial hierarchy in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,81,142,20,6535],"tags":[6608,6668,9313,22,24,51,9314,29,714,146,364,45],"class_list":["post-47367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-audio","category-black-african-american","category-nonfiction","category-repost","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-caste","tag-civil-rights","tag-historical","tag-identity","tag-isabel-wilderson","tag-race-racism","tag-robin-miles","tag-slavery","tag-sociology","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson [in Booklist] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/caste-the-origins-of-our-discontents-by-isabel-wilkerson-in-booklist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson [in Booklist] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In writing her now-classic\u00a0The Warmth of Other Suns\u00a0(2010), Pulitzer-Prized (and first Black woman so honored) Isabel Wilkerson reveals in her highly\u00a0anticipated follow-up, \u201cwhile working on &#8230; 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