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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.

Notes From Your Bookseller

Sometimes we read something so fundamentally stirring that we find ourselves speechless in the face of so many tumbling thoughts. Caste is one of those books. Isabel Wilkerson is one of those writers. She reminds us that "we are responsible for our own ignorance or, with time and openhearted enlightenment, our own wisdom." In this magnificent work of history, narrative, social commentary, philosophy and inspired storytelling, she offers us a new frame, a deeper focal point and new language to help us toward a reckoning long overdue. Quite a gift.

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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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