Caste: The Origins of Inequality in the 21st Century

Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson explores the origins of caste society in the modern world and proves: in the 21st century, people continue to be divided into higher and lower castes. • The book is recommended by OPRAH WINFREY and BARACK OBAMA. • MAIN NON-FICTION OF 2020 according to TIME, People, The Washington Post, and Publishers Weekly. • Winner of the PEN, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and National Book Critics Circle Award. • Future hit on NETFLIX. America, India, and the Third Reich — what do these countries have in common? Each of them has developed its own unique caste system, dividing people into lower and higher sorts and preparing the ground for modern chauvinistic movements around the world. In her book, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson examines the ways in which people are oppressed and denied rights based on their nationality, skin color, or place of birth, and shows the damage this inflicts on both their quality of life and the economy as a whole. Her book proves: even despite progress, the caste system still exists, depriving people of equal rights and opportunities, killing the human potential inherent in them. Woven from numerous human stories, filled with injustice, anger, and pain, the book «Caste» vividly illustrates the failure of artificial rules and prejudices that led to the Holocaust, Gandhi's protests, and Jim Crow laws — and in the 21st century to large-scale racial protests in America. It is also an antidote to the ideas of chauvinism and xenophobia that still grip the minds of people around the world.  «A detailed study of racism, inequality, and injustice. This is a painfully resonant book, and it has come out at the right time.» — The Guardian «Wilkerson's book is a powerful and instructive account of how hierarchy reproduces itself, as well as a call to the difficult work of dismantling it.» — The Washington Post «Astonishingly bold both in idea and presentation… The extrapolation of Wilkerson's ideas