Caste

Caste is insidious and therefore powerful because it is not hatred, it is not necessarily personal. It is the worn grooves of comforting routines and unthinking expectations, patterns of a social order that have been in place for so long that it looks like the natural order of things.

This book is exceptional. It is also, appropriately, very painful. It is also beautiful. I can't think of an American who wouldn't benefit from reading. Specifically, if you are a white American, I don't care how woke or educated or well-read you you are: unless you have purposely, specifically, and sustainedly devoured information about American caste and its relationship to other caste systems in the world throughout your whole life, this book will be an intellectual and moral education.I know no one who matches this description