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Revisiting America’s Caste System (with Isabel Wilkerson)
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The Origins of Our Discontents
The subtitle of the book is meaningful. And that is, it's the origins of our discontents. It's an attempt to look back to find out, wheredid this begin? How did we get to this point? Where did the gradations and artificial hierarchies, where did this emerge? When people were abroad here an napped and brought across the atlantic during the transatlantic slave trade, they entered into what became a bi polar cast system. There was the dominant group, which would be the british colonists themselves, and then the ones at the bottom, meaning the people of african descent,. who were brought in to be enslaved.
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