The Limits of Caste
Hazel V. Carby, 21 January 2021
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson.
Allen Lane, 476 pp., £20, August 2020,978 0 241 48651 1 Show More
by Isabel Wilkerson.
Allen Lane, 476 pp., £20, August 2020,
“... that is, the descendants of the 388,746 enslaved people who disembarked in the region of North America that would become the United States. It represents their histories and culture as not only central to but exemplary of a singular national narrative – ‘a people’s journey, a nation’s story’ – the culmination of which is the establishment ... ”