Study Guide: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

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Spanning the arrival of the first enslaved people to the United States in 1619 to the contemporary Covid-19 pandemic, Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is a sprawling nonfiction work about the nature of inequality in the United States, India, and Nazi Germany.

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