Caste: Read all about it

Photo by: © Christopher T Martin

By Darren Katz, Co-Founder

This week, I finished Isabel Wilkerson’s extraordinary book, Caste. Wilkerson outlines, in devastating fashion, the history of discrimination of Black Americans through their placement as a subordinate caste in the US. The book reframed how I think about the scourge of discrimination and is unquestionably worth your time. 

Here are five links that relate to the book and the story it tells. 

1 )) Thomas Edsall in the Times about the fundamental fears of many Americans about losing their status as the dominant class and how that translated into votes for Trump. This is the story of the book.

2 )) Here’s Wilkerson talking with Terry Gross about how it’s more than racism.

3 )) The Guardian has a glowing review.

4 )) Netflix is having Ava Du Vernay adapt it.

5 )) If you want a really deep and wonderful dive (and you do), check out this video of Wilkerson being interviewed by Bryan Stephenson.

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