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  2. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - Wikipedia

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    Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is a nonfiction book by the American journalist Isabel Wilkerson, published in August 2020 by Random House.The book describes racism in the United States as an aspect of a caste system—a society-wide system of social stratification characterized by notions such as hierarchy, inclusion and exclusion, and purity.

  3. Isabel Wilkerson - Wikipedia

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    The book almost instantly hit number 5 on the New York Times Bestseller list for nonfiction and has since been included in lists of best books of 2010 by many reviewers, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, Amazon.com, Salon.com, The Washington Post, The Economist, Atlanta Magazine and The Daily Beast.

  4. Caste - Wikipedia

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    The caste system, a relic of feudalistic economic systems, emphasizes differences between socio-economic classes that are obviated by openly free market capitalistic economic systems, which reward individual initiative, enterprise, merit, and thrift, thereby creating a path for social mobility.

  5. Caste (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Caste is a system of social stratification and hierarchy in human societies. It may also refer to: Caste system in India; Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, a 2020 book by Isabel Wilkerson Origin, working title Caste, a 2023 film adaptation by Ava DuVernay; Caste (play), a play by Thomas William Robertson; Caste (1930 film), a British film

  6. Casta - Wikipedia

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    Las castas.Casta painting showing 16 racial groupings. Anonymous, 18th century, oil on canvas, 148×104 cm, Museo Nacional del Virreinato, Tepotzotlán, Mexico Casta (Spanish:) is a term which means "lineage" in Spanish and Portuguese and has historically been used as a racial and social identifier.

  7. Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development

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    Ambedkar views that definitions of castes given by Émile Senart [5] John Nesfield, H. H. Risley and Dr Ketkar as incomplete or incorrect by itself and all have missed the central point in the mechanism of the caste system. Senart's "idea of pollution" is a characteristic of caste in so far as caste has a religious flavour.

  8. Category:Books about the caste system in India - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Books about the caste system in India" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.

  9. Tribal casteism - Wikipedia

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    In Himachal Pradesh, the activist-lawyer Lal Chand Dhissa detailed caste discriminations within tribes in his book The Injustices of the Constitution. He argues for central recognition of tribal casteism and the protection of "Scheduled Tribe Dalits" (Scheduled Tribes and Dalits are recognized as mutually exclusive by the Constitution of India).