What Caste are you in and do you "belong"?
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*Please support Abi's and purchase the book here if you're able* Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste pulls back the curtain on how invisible hierarchies shape our lives; how power, race, and class form a rigid structure that still dictates who is seen, who is heard, and who is free. Through deeply researched storytelling, Wilkerson compares the American racial order to India’s caste system and Nazi Germany, revealing the unspoken rules that sustain inequality. Caste asks us to examine the bones of our society and our own place within it. In reading it together, we refuse silence and celebrate the courage of those who write, and live, against oppression.
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- Open Discussion: We’ll explore major themes, dehumanization, moral courage, and pathways toward repair.
- Community Voices: Bring one quote or passage that struck you, and share why.
- Reflection Activity: We’ll map our own experiences of “belonging” and “barriers”
- How does Wilkerson’s framing of caste differ from traditional views of racism?
- What moments in the book connected most with your own life or community?
- How might understanding caste help us reimagine justice today?
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Come curious, come kind, come ready to listen.