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Isabel Wilkerson

America’s Unspoken Caste System

Race is the metric by which one’s position in the caste system is determined. In her book, “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” Isabel Wilkerson describes how these inherited rankings have been passed down through generations from the country’s very founding.

April 14, 2021