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This is a book that everyone should read… it reshaped my mind and how I think about things and how lucky I am to look the way I do and to have had the opportunities I have had. Such an important piece of work that I will tell everyone about.

@BarkingMadRead @BeckyWithTheGoodBooks In my defense I have read about 50 BOTM books, so I'm not a total failure! But these are some of the 26 that I've not gotten to thus far ... let me know if you've read any, or if you want to!

This book reframed my mental model around race. Wilkerson‘s blend of historical facts, various studies, and anecdotes kept me engaged. Everyone should read this book.

From the chapter “Democracy on the Ballot”

Spring 1944 - Columbus Ohio public school

This single sentence was the winning essay response to the question “What should we do with Hitler after the war?” submitted by a 16-year-old African American girl.

I‘ve always understood racism as a toxic made up system that divides America. Wilkerson pushes this notion further, examining the underlining structures and institutions in place that keep racism and all its prejudices alive. The caste system, developed before America‘s founding, spawned all these forms of prejudices that divides us. She expertly illuminates Caste and all its manifestations so well in this book. I couldn‘t recommend it enough.

I finally got it in! Can anyone from #shesaid tell me what chapter we are on?

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ such an important book!

So, so, GOOD! This book compares America‘s caste system to that of India with a lot of references to Nazi Germany. The stories were excellent and it really made me think. It‘s a fresh take on racial inequality in America and I‘ve recommended this read to several people already.

A must-read. This gave me such a deep perspective of the imbedded inequities in this country. “A world without caste will set everyone free.” Great on audio. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This book puts so much about our American society in perspective. Impactful and well researched and reasoned. This book will not make you feel good but could lead to real change for those who read it. Highly recommend. 5 🌟

My best friend sent an e-gift card to me for a new local bookstore in my area—Black Garnet Books. I decided to use it to buy Caste and have been eagerly awaiting its arrival. It‘s here!! And it‘s in line to be devoured by me sometime real soon!

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In 1944 a sixteen-year old Black student in Columbus Ohio won an essay contest on the theme ‘ What to Do with Hitler after the War‘ by submitting the single sentence, “ Put him in a black skin and leg him live the rest of his life in America” From the book Caste.

This book made me physically ill at some points but it was so well written and so significant. Everyone should read this.

Today‘s beautiful #audiowalk

How many other #teachersoflitsy are having their lunch breaks in their car to get out of the school.

Today‘s #audiowalk

I do not think I have ever marked up a book as much I have this one, even my college textbooks. This is a book I will continue to go back to over and over again.

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In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.

(caste) It is about respect, authority, and assumptions of competence—-who is accorded these and who is not. Isabel Wilkerson