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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

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Listen to Isabel Wilkerson in conversation about Caste on Poured Over: The B&N Podcast.

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A fundamentally stirring read that will leave you speechless. In this magnificent work of history, narrative, social commentary, philosophy and inspired storytelling, Isabel Wilkerson offers us a new frame, a deeper focal point and a new language to help us toward a reckoning long overdue.

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“An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times


“[Caste] changes the lens through which we see the world.”—Oprah Winfrey for Time, “25 Books That Capture This American Moment”

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