Caste
Autor Isabel Wilkersonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 feb 2023
Observăm în Caste o schimbare de paradigmă în analiza structurilor sociale americane. În această ediție, adusă la zi cu un Afterword nou semnat de autoare, Isabel Wilkerson depășește discuția limitată la rasă sau clasă pentru a expune un mecanism mult mai vechi și mai rigid: sistemul de caste. Ne-a atras atenția rigoarea cu care autoarea demontează iluzia meritocrației, propunând în schimb un model bazat pe opt piloni fundamentali — de la voința divină la stigmatizare — care guvernează discret destinele umane.
Din punct de vedere structural, volumul nu este un tratat sociologic arid, ci o narațiune imersivă. Wilkerson pune în oglindă realități din Statele Unite, India și Germania nazistă, documentând modul în care regimul de la Berlin a studiat legile rasiale americane pentru a-și fundamenta propria ierarhie. Considerăm că forța cărții rezidă în capacitatea de a conecta macro-istoria cu experiența individuală, analizând impactul fiziologic al acestor diviziuni, de la ratele de depresie la speranța de viață.
Lucrarea completează perspectiva oferită de Deep South de Allison Davis, adăugând o dimensiune comparativă internațională și o actualizare necesară a modului în care ierarhia „invizibilă” funcționează în secolul XXI. Dacă în The Warmth of Other Suns autoarea analiza mișcarea fizică a populației prin „Marea Migrație”, în Caste ea sondează arhitectura statică, dar opresivă, a sistemului care a determinat acele deplasări. Este o evoluție de la analiza fenomenului la analiza cauzei prime, oferind un context esențial pentru înțelegerea tensiunilor sociale contemporane.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0593230272
Pagini: 544
Dimensiuni: 136 x 199 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Random House LLC US
Colecția Random House Trade Paperbacks
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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor interesați de sociologie și istorie politică. Caste oferă o lentilă nouă prin care pot fi înțelese diviziunile sociale, demonstrând că ierarhiile nu sunt accidentale, ci structurale. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a modului în care puterea este distribuită în societate și a mecanismelor prin care inegalitatea este menținută, totul printr-o scriitură care transformă datele istorice în povești umane memorabile.
Despre autor
Isabel Wilkerson este o personalitate marcantă a jurnalismului american, fiind prima femeie de culoare care a câștigat Premiul Pulitzer pentru reportaj individual (1994), pe când era șefa biroului din Chicago al The New York Times. Experiența sa în jurnalismul narativ este dublată de o rigoare academică, ocupând funcția de profesor la Universitatea din Boston. Provenind dintr-o familie care a participat la Marea Migrație, Wilkerson și-a dedicat cariera documentării istoriei nespuse a Americii, transformând cercetarea de arhivă în literatură de non-ficțiune de mare impact.
Descriere scurtă
The 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—now with a new Afterword by the author.
#1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, O: The Oprah Magazine, NPR, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, New York Post, The New York Public Library, Fortune, Smithsonian Magazine, Marie Claire, Slate, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews
Winner of the Carl Sandberg Literary Award • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • National Book Award Longlist • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist • PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Longlist • Kirkus Prize Finalist
“As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power—which groups have it and which do not.”
In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched, and beautifully written narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.
Beyond race, class, or other factors, 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 toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others—she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their outcasting of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against; 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 the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity.
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 ordinary lives and of American life today.
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Recenzii
Powerful and timely ... I cannot recommend it strongly enough
Magnificent. Profound. Eye-opening. Sobering. Hopeful.
Caste forced me to rethink how deeply embedded our unexamined preconceptions are
Extraordinary ... an instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far ... It's a book that changes the weather inside a reader.
Such is Wilkerson's gift as a writer that she leaves you looking at the world differently.
Caste will spur readers to think and to feel in equal measure
Isabel Wilkerson's Caste is probably the most important piece of non-fiction published this year.
Surprising and arresting... Like a prayer for a country in pain, offering new directions through prophetic new language
A consummate storyteller ... Isabel Wilkerson has written important book that reminds us of a comradeship of interwoven histories.
An expansive interrogation of racism, institutionalised inequality and injustice ... This is an American reckoning and so it should be. Wilkerson activates history in her pages, bringing all its horror and possibility to light. It is a painfully resonant book and could not have come at a more urgent time.
Persuasive and unsettling ... The case Wilkerson puts forward is inspiring and hopeful ... caste can be dismantled, setting everyone free.
Important and timely ... If repudiation of past assumptions is the first step towards healing, Wilkerson's book offers a powerful frame for this. It is essential reading for anybody who feels angry, guilty or threatened by the tangled issue of "race" in America today.
Searching, gorgeously crafted... Caste is a luminous read, bearing its own torch of righteous wrath in a diamond-hard prose that will be admired and studied by future generations.
A powerful, illuminating and heartfelt account of how hierarchy reproduces itself, as well as a call to action for the difficult work of undoing it.
Magnificent . . . a trailblazing work on the birth of inequality . . . Caste offers a forward-facing vision. Bursting with insight and love, this book may well help save us
Wilkerson's genius as a writer is her ability to tell you the big story of what happened, but to make that story matter by linking it to the lives of those who survived it ... What in the hands of another writer would feel like an abstraction attains, in her work, the vividness and emotional power of lived experience.
Haunting yet strangely consoling, in a world defined by its divides, Caste connects. It reveals the 'unseen skeleton' embedded in heinous acts of power but, in evocative prose that is full of poise, reminds us what's possible when people come together. I closed the book feeling enlightened and energised, ready to roll up my sleeves and get on with the good work.
Propulsive ... Should be required reading for generations to come.
A transformative new framework through which to understand identity and injustice.
Wonderful ... Prepare to have your mind expanded, your heart break and your head slowly shake by Wilkerson's sublime combination of skilful, analytical dissection and raw, emotional testimony
Caste makes a convincing, often scorching case that caste was there at the birth of the nation, and we wrestle every day with that legacy. It upsets the already rickety national myth that anyone in the United States can be anything -albeit, without entirely abandoning that hope
Vital, brilliant and necessary
Destined to become a classic ... urgent, essential reading for all.
It should be at the top of every American's reading list.
This enthralling exposé deserves a wide and impassioned readership
This is a brilliant book
Wilkerson's book arrives at a key inflection point, an opening for us to imagine, and then create, a system that's better than the one we've inherited.