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\u201cAn instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.\u201d\u2014Dwight Garner, The New York Times<\/p>\n
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns<\/strong> examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions\u2014now with a new Afterword by the author.<\/p>\n #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize \u2022 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist \u2022 Winner of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award \u2022 Dayton Literary Prize Finalist \u2022 PEN\/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist \u2022 PEN\/Jean Stein Book Award Finalist \u2022 Kirkus Prize Finalist<\/p>\n \u201cAs we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power\u2014which groups have it and which do not.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mint copy in DJ, later printing, 2020, signed on title page by the author in pristine condition! \u201cAn instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.\u201d\u2014Dwight Garner, The New York Times The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":79687,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[186,182,364,104,171,369],"product_tag":[859,858,240],"class_list":["post-79686","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-african-american-art-bs","product_cat-black-studies","product_cat-detroit-lit","product_cat-history-biographies","product_cat-history-biographies-memoires","product_cat-signed-by-author","product_tag-african-american-history","product_tag-isabel-wiljerson","product_tag-signed","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/79686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=79686"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=79686"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=79686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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