Caste

书名：CasteTheOriginsofOurDiscontents
作者：IsabelWilkerson
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ISBN：9780593230251
出版社：RandomHouse
出版时间：2020-8-4
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：496
豆瓣评分： 7.1

书籍简介：

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：

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.

书友短评：

@ 苏思南 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 @ hannahnah 巨好看 a must read if you happen to have an entangled relationship with the United States 作者从自己的经历出发，引人入胜地展现在美洲大陆种族歧视险恶的真面目。一个人没有办法体会别人的生活；大多数白人或其他种族的人是无法理解黑人百年来被踩在脚下生活，只求能有一天安宁日子的渴求。但谁也没有这个义务去理解别人。特别喜欢作者和水管工唠嗑，让他消除偏见的段落。虽然很卑微，仍然是黑人在做出努力，但也许这是现阶段这个社会能够做到的最好：一个接着一个，消除偏见，代代相传。 @ Alexis 看了小半决定放弃 好读是真好读 但更像信息收集后的平行罗列 没有什么新的收获… @ 文件传输助手 喜欢这本🥺观点好新奇 @ Αλκιμβιαδης 过誉了。不过是研究的集合讲解而已。 @ 钚Janus 不明白为什么分成那么多章节的观点，感觉100页就可以把事情讲清楚了。。。

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