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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: The longer structures persist broken, the harder they become to fix.
Chapter 3: Viewing caste alongside race and slavery clarifies the deep roots behind America’s discontent today, clearly.
Chapter 4: America’s enduring caste system remains stubbornly resistant to real change today.
Chapter 5: A caste system needs a set of foundational pillars.
Chapter 6: Caste’s pillars include obsession with pollution and a systematic process of dehumanization over others.
Chapter 7: The last pillars involve terror and built-in inferiority.
Chapter 8: In the latter half of the twentieth century, people in castes above African-Americans began feeling threatened by a rapidly changing society nationwide.
Chapter 9: Monuments and memorials can either uphold or dismantle caste structures.
Chapter 10: We can back those who break barriers, and we can keep chipping away at pillars together.
Description
Caste (2020) takes a revealing look at the caste system that continues to exist in American society, and its disturbing similarities to caste systems in India and WWII-era Germany. It explains how the attitudes of the dominant castes have become ingrained, on conscious and subconscious levels, through generations of subjugation. You’ll find out what it takes to maintain a caste system as well as what can be done to break free from it.
Who Should Listen
- People interested in American politics
- History buffs
- Those curious about how inequality can persist in a society