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Are you looking for Caste<\/em> quotes by Isabel Wilkerson? What are some of the key messages from the book?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caste<\/em> is an eye-opening reexamination of American history that pries open the lid on the country’s deep-seated racism, exposing the ugly truth about the ideology behind its making. The following Caste<\/em> quotes by Isabel Wilkerson highlight some of its most insightful passages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep reading for Caste<\/em> quotes by Isabel Wilkerson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Caste <\/em>Quotes by Isabel Wilkerson<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCaste is insidious and therefore powerful because it is not hatred, it is not necessarily personal. It is the worn grooves of comforting routines and unthinking expectations, patterns of a social order that have been in place for so long that it looks like the natural order of things.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

According to Wilkerson in the first of the Caste <\/em>quotes, the existence of caste is not the result of personal hate towards a particular racial or ethnic group. Rather, it is the product of the public unconsciously buying into the ideology behind the existing social structure so it seems like it is the natural order of things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRace is fluid and superficial, subject to periodic redefinition to meet the needs of the dominant caste<\/a> in what is now the United States.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The word \u201crace\u201d and the derivatives of \u201cracism\u201d and \u201cracist\u201d are so ingrained in our cultural vernacular that we may not understand the true nature of those words. Race in a sense of skin color is an arbitrary characteristic which is benign in other contexts. In the context of caste, however, race<\/em> is used as a means to differentiate dominant power from subordinate inferiority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSlavery was not merely an unfortunate thing that happened to black people. It was an American innovation, an American institution created by and for the benefit of the elites of the dominant caste and enforced by poorer members of the dominant caste who tied their lot to the caste system<\/a> rather than to their consciences.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Many refer to slavery as an unfortunate chapter in America\u2019s story, but this is not accurate. According to Isabel Wilkerson, slavery wasn\u2019t just an event that happened in America. Slavery is the mechanism by which America was created. It was the founding ideal of this country, the bedrock of American ideology, existing longer than any other system in America to date. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRather than honor supremacists with statues on pedestals, Germany, after decades of silence and soul-searching, chose to erect memorials to the victims of its aggressions and to the courageous people who resisted the men who inflicted atrocities on human beings.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In Caste<\/em>, Wilkerson draws attention to the dichotomy between the meaning attached to the Nazi memorials in Germany and confederate statues in America<\/a>. Germans have kept a number of Holocaust monuments and concentration camp memorials, but they focus on remembering and learning from the events, rather than celebrating them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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