> Looking forward to reading. > Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson > > Currently reading 'Caste'. I'm having to go slow because every chapter is > stuffed with insights. >
Apart from caste being an interesting lens to bring to US (and Nazi Germany) society, does the book offer insights about caste in India? Not that it has to. The excerpts I have read were good and just looking at US society through the caste lens itself is quite interesting. Yes it does offer insights about caste in India. It is a case study of caste systems in India and caste in USA and Nazi Germany. It offers a radical understanding of race and a really neat way of understanding caste in India as well. There are 8 pillars of caste in the book but I've yet to get there. It's also written very well. No unnecessary words, very clean prose and a lot of stories. Narrative non-fiction as it should be. On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 9:00 PM Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 5:02 AM Venkatesh H R <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Looking forward to reading. > > Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson > > > > Currently reading 'Caste'. I'm having to go slow because every chapter is > > stuffed with insights. > > > > Apart from caste being an interesting lens to bring to US (and Nazi > Germany) society, does the book offer insights about caste in India? Not > that it has to. The excerpts I have read were good and just looking at US > society through the caste lens itself is quite interesting. > > Thaths > > > -- > Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? > Carl: Nuthin'. > Homer: D'oh! > Carl: Unless you're crooked. > Homer: Woo-hoo! > -- *Get your 'vaccine' from 'fake news', lies, half-truths, manipulated truths, propaganda and general B.S. at my media buddhi newsletter <https://mediabuddhi.substack.com/>.* H R Venkatesh Director, Training and Research, BOOM <https://www.boomlive.in/> John S. Knight Journalism Fellow 2019 <https://jsk.stanford.edu/fellows/class-of-2019/h-r-venkatesh/>, Stanford University Twitter: @hrvenkatesh
