Book Club: Caste
Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/09/2020
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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TRUU’s book club is reforming, thanks to Parker and Tilly Maddux, with help from Peter Westcott. The first book that the club will be reading is “Caste” by Isabel Wilkerson.
The author writes, “As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power—which groups have it and which do not.”
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. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people—including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball’s Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others—she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day.
If you are interested in Book Club, please email Tilly Maddux: tillymaddux@gmail.com or Peter Westcott: westcott_friesen@hotmail.com