Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

📦 Product Details

• Author: Isabel Wilkerson
• Publisher: Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd
• Publication Date: 14 February 2023
• Language: English
• Print Length: 200 pages
• ISBN-10: 0141995467
• ISBN-13: 978-0141995465
• Item Weight: 450 g

📖 About the Book

Caste examines the idea of caste as a system of social hierarchy and explores how deeply rooted divisions can shape societies, institutions, and individual lives. Isabel Wilkerson develops a framework for understanding social inequality by examining historical experiences in different societies.

The book draws connections between the caste systems of India, Nazi Germany, and racial hierarchy in the United States, examining how inherited social categories can influence status, opportunity, treatment, and perceptions of belonging.

Through historical accounts, personal stories, and social analysis, Wilkerson explores themes such as hierarchy, discrimination, power, identity, social mobility, and inequality. The book encourages readers to consider how systems of inherited status can persist and affect communities across generations.

✍️ About the Author

Isabel Wilkerson is an American journalist and author. She is known for her historical and social writing on race, migration, inequality, and American society.

Her acclaimed book The Warmth of Other Suns documents the experiences of African Americans who participated in the Great Migration from the American South to other parts of the United States. Caste further develops her examination of social hierarchy and inequality through a comparative historical framework.