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Revisiting America’s Caste System (with Isabel Wilkerson)

Stay Tuned with Preet

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Race and Raceism in Humanity

In the early years and decades of colo neal america, in this country, the idea of race is relatively new. Race became the signal of the category that you were assigned to. I say that in a race that cast is the bones, race is the skin, and race is what we can see. In other words, where a person was situated in the hierarchy, within the cast system, was determined by what they looked like.

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