Editorial Penguin UK
Fecha de edición febrero 2023 · Edición nº 1
Idioma inglés
EAN 9780141995465
496 páginas
Libro
encuadernado en tapa blanda
Dimensiones 129 mm x 198 mm
Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hidden phenomenon. Linking America, India and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson reveals how our world has been shaped by caste - and how its rigid, arbitrary hierarchies still divide us today.
With clear-sighted rigour, Wilkerson unearths the eight pillars that connect caste systems across civilizations, and demonstrates how our own era of intensifying conflict and upheaval has arisen as a consequence of caste. Weaving in stories of real people, she shows how its insidious undertow emerges every day; she documents its surprising health costs; and she explores its effects on culture and politics. Finally, Wilkerson points forward to the ways we can - and must - move beyond its artificial divisions, towards our common humanity.
Isabel Wilkerson es periodista. Ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y la Medalla Nacional de Humanidades, ha enseñado en las universidades de Princeton, Emory y Boston y ha dado conferencias en más de doscientas otras facultades y universidades en los Estados Unidos y en Europa y Asia.
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