Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

For the Ages: A History Podcast - A podcast by New-York Historical Society - Mondays

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson examines an unspoken hierarchy that transcends race, class, and other lines of division in modern society. By comparing the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, explore how the nation can orient itself around common humanity instead of artificial and destructive separations between those who have power and those who do not. Recorded on May 7, 2021