作者：IsabelWilkerson
出版社：RandomHouse
副标题：TheOriginsofOurDiscontents
出版年：2020-8-4
页数：496
定价：USD23.41
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780593230251
内容简介
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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.
作者简介
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Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, is the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Warmth of Other Suns. Her debut work won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was named to Time’s 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the 2010s and The New York Times’s list of the Best Nonfiction of All Time. She has taught at Princeton, Emory, and Boston Universities and has lectured at more than two hundred other colleges and universities across the United States and in Europe and Asia.
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People around the world known CASTE IS TALKING ABOUT AFRICA and has nothing to do with America (RACISM related instead). The weirdest thing is she compared US with Nazi….and I am so confused what is s…
#BLM 我已经说倦了。
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…
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。
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