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SUMMARY:Book Discussion Group | Caste
DESCRIPTION:Join us in-person for the Friends of the Library book discussio
 n group on Monday the 26th! September's selection is "Caste: The Origins o
 f our Discontents" by Isabel Wilkerson. Copies of the book discussion sele
 ctions are available to check out at the library\, beginning around the mi
 ddle of the month\, while supplies last.\nFrom Amazon.com:\n\n\n#1 NEW YOR
 K TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “An instant American
  classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American 
 century thus far.”—Dwight Garner\, The New York Times\n\nThe 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.\n\nNAMED THE #1
  NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME\, ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YE
 AR BY People • The Washington Post • Publishers Weekly AND ONE OF THE 
 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • O: The Oprah 
 Magazine • NPR • Bloomberg • Christian Science Monitor • New York 
 Post • The New York Public Library • Fortune • Smithsonian Magazine 
 • Marie Claire • Town &amp\; Country • Slate • Library Journal •
  Kirkus Reviews • LibraryReads • PopMatters\n\nWinner of the Los Angel
 es Times Book Prize • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • Da
 yton Literary Peace Prize Finalist • PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award fo
 r Nonfiction Finalist • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Longlist\n\n“As we g
 o about our daily lives\, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theate
 r\, flashlight cast down in the aisles\, guiding us to our assigned seats 
 for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or moralit
 y. It is about power—which groups have it and which do not.”\n \nIn t
 his brilliant book\, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an 
 unseen phenomenon in America as she explores\, through an immersive\, deep
 ly researched narrative and stories about real people\, how America today 
 and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system\, a ri
 gid hierarchy of human rankings.\n \nBeyond race\, class\, or other facto
 rs\, 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 t
 oddler son\, Wilkerson herself\, and many others—she shows the ways that
  the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. She documents h
 ow the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their outcastin
 g of the Jews\; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that t
 here be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves agains
 t\; 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 th
 e artificial and destructive separations of human divisions\, toward hope 
 in our common humanity.\n\nBeautifully 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 ordina
 ry lives and of American life today.\n\n\n&nbsp\;
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