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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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  • Isabel Wilkerson
    Isabel Wilkerson
    / The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste

    Titled Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, her second book was published in 2020 as a commentary on social hierarchies in the United States that she described as a caste system. Wilkerson argued that racism is not an adequate word to describe the deeply entrenched inequities…

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    Titled Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, her second book was published in 2020 as a commentary on social hierarchies in the United States that she described as a caste system. Wilkerson argued that racism is not an adequate word to describe the deeply entrenched inequities…

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