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SUMMARY:Discussion of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent by Isabelle Wilk
 erson
DESCRIPTION:Presented by SOJAC + RTA: Read-Talk-Act Social Justice Book Gro
 up\nThe RTA Book group will discuss the first half of the book we are all 
 talking about\, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent\, by Isabel Wilkerso
 n. Pastor Jim O’Hanlon will lead the discussion focusing on issues of r
 ace through the lens of Wilkerson’s book.\n\nTo receive the Zoom login 
 credentials to attend this engaging discussion\, please contact Sharon Si
 lver at sraplata@msn.com\n\nAbout Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents\n
 Poetically written and brilliantly researched\, Caste invites us to discov
 er the inner workings of an American hierarchy that goes far beyond the co
 nfines of race\, class\, or gender.\nA book steeped in empathy and insight
 \, Caste explores\, through layered analysis and stories of real people\, 
 the structure of an unspoken system of human ranking and reveals how our l
 ives are still restricted by what divided us centuries ago.\n“Modern-day
  caste protocols\,” Wilkerson writes\, “are often less about overt att
 acks or conscious hostility. They are like the wind\, powerful enough to k
 nock you down but invisible as they go about their work.”\nWilkerson rig
 orously defines eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizat
 ions\, including divine will\, heredity\, and dehumanization. She document
 s the parallels with two other hierarchies in history\, those of India and
  of Nazi Germany\, and no reader will be left without a greater understand
 ing of the price we all pay in a society torn by artificial divisions.\n
 “The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality\,” Wilkerson
  writes. “It is about power — which groups have it and which do not.
 ”\nBefore its release\, the Chicago Tribune declared that Caste “shoul
 d be at the top of every American’s reading list." Dwight Garner\, the c
 hief critic of The New York Times\, called Caste “an instant American cl
 assic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American cen
 tury thus far.”\nUpon publication\, Oprah Winfrey announced that Caste w
 as her Summer 2020 pick for Oprah’s Book Club and proclaimed it “the m
 ost essential...the most necessary-for-all-humanity book that I have chose
 n.”
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