Book to be discussed:
We'll hold our next Racial Justice Book Club (Haverford) meeting on Monday, 12/14 (rescheduled from 12/7) at 7 p.m. on Zoom. We will be reading Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson.
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is a nonfiction book by the American journalist Isabel Wilkerson published in 2020. It describes racism in the United States as an aspect of a caste system – a society-wide system of social stratification characterized by notions such as hierarchy, inclusion and exclusion, and purity. Wilkerson does so by comparing aspects of the experience of American people of color to the caste systems of India and Nazi Germany, and she explores the impact of castes on societies shaped by them, and their people.
Meeting will be via Zoom.