Caste : the origins of our discontents : adapted for young adults / Isabel Wilkerson.
"We in the developed world are like homeowners who inherited a house on a piece of land that is beautiful on the outside, but whose soil is unstable loam and rock, heaving and contracting over generations, cracks patched but the deeper ruptures waved away for decades, centuries even. Many people may rightly say, 'I had nothing to do with how this all started. I have nothing to do with the sins of the past. My ancestors never attacked indigenous people, never owned slaves.' And, yes. Not one of us was here when this house was built. Our immediate ancestors may have had nothing to do with it, but here we are, the current occupants of a property with stress cracks and bowed walls and fissures built into the foundation. We are the heirs to whatever is right or wrong with it. We did not erect the uneven pillars or joists, but they are ours to deal with now. And any further deterioration is, in fact, on our hands" -- Page 4 of cover.
Item details
- ISBN: 9780593427941
- ISBN: 0593427947
- ISBN: 9780593427958
- ISBN: 0593427955
- Physical Description: 338 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press, [2022]
Contents / Notes
General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The man in the crowd -- A structure built long ago -- The arbitrary construction of human divisions -- The eight pillars of casts -- The tentacles of caste -- The consequences of caste -- Backlash -- Awakening -- Epilogue: A world without caste. |
Target Audience Note: | Ages 12 and up Delacorte Press. |
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Genre: | Young adult literature. Juvenile works. Young adult nonfiction. |
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"We in the developed world are like homeowners who inherited a house on a piece of land that is beautiful on the outside, but whose soil is unstable loam and rock, heaving and contracting over generations, cracks patched but the deeper ruptures waved away for decades, centuries even. Many people may rightly say, 'I had nothing to do with how this all started. I have nothing to do with the sins of the past. My ancestors never attacked indigenous people, never owned slaves.' And, yes. Not one of us was here when this house was built. Our immediate ancestors may have had nothing to do with it, but here we are, the current occupants of a property with stress cracks and bowed walls and fissures built into the foundation. We are the heirs to whatever is right or wrong with it. We did not erect the uneven pillars or joists, but they are ours to deal with now. And any further deterioration is, in fact, on our hands" -- Page 4 of cover.