Caste

Morally and politically urgent, in Caste, Wilkerson makes the game-changing case that rather than race, class or gender alone, it is caste that underpins societal inequalities and hardship. That is, deep rooted systems by which the dominant group in any culture gathers and maintains power through arbitrary systems of human categorisation that work to maintain the status of the dominant group, and suppress the status and power of those below it. Throughout the book Wilkerson masterfully interweaves her own personal stories with remarkable accounts of others from Martin Luther King Jr. to an ordinary single father that lend a real poignancy to her narrative.