Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

  • 作者: Wilkerson, Isabel
  • 原文出版社:Random House
  • 出版日期:2020/08/04
  • 語言:英文
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  普立茲獎得主伊莎貝爾.威克遜,論種姓制度在美國的影響
 
  「在我們的日常生活中,種姓無所不在,像是劇院的服務生拿著手電筒為我們帶位一般,我們默默被分配到某種位置。這種階級狀態,不只是個人觀感或是道德問題,而是在於哪些人擁有權力,哪些人則無。」
 
  在深入研究他人的口述與故事後,伊莎貝爾.威克遜帶我們看見了美國潛藏的現象,揭示出種姓制度如何在過去與現在潛移默化地影響著美國,而我們在這僵化的階級制度下又是如何受限的。
 
  除了在種族、經濟能力或者其他問題外,存在著一種深具影響力的種姓制度,影響著我們的生活、行為,甚至是國家的命運。維爾克森將美國、印度與納粹德國的種姓制度相連結,探討種姓制度的八個重要架構,及其導致的社會分化。
 
  藉由人權鬥士馬丁·路德·金恩、職棒選手薩奇·佩吉、作者自身及許多他人的動人故事,本書揭示出,種姓制度無時無刻都在這個社會製造歧視與壓迫。威克遜紀錄了納粹如何研究美國種族隔離制度,以制定放逐猶太人的計畫;也探討中等階級的人需要底層人士墊背所潛藏的殘酷因素;她提出種姓制度甚至使人們罹患憂鬱症、影響平均壽命,且對我們的文化與政治都造成莫大的影響;最後,她為美國人指引出一條破除種姓制度、跨越人類分歧,走向和諧共存的道路。
 
  伊莎貝爾.威克遜以優美的筆法,寫出這本令人眼睛為之一亮的著作,讓我們在觀看他人的動人故事之餘,得以檢視現今潛藏在我們日常生活之下的問題。(文/博客來編譯)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK - "An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times

The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.

#1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, O: The Oprah Magazine, NPR, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, New York Post, The New York Public Library, Fortune, Smithsonian Magazine, Marie Claire, Slate, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews

Winner of the Carl Sandberg Literary Award - Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize - National Book Award Longlist - National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist - Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist - PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist - PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Longlist - Kirkus Prize Finalist

"As 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--which groups have it and which do not."

In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched, and beautifully written narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.

Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people--including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball’s Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others--she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their outcasting of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against; she writes about the surprising health costs of caste, in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity.

Original and revealing, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today.

 

作者介紹

Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, is the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Warmth of Other Suns. Her debut work won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was named to Time’s 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the 2010s and The New York Times’s list of the Best Nonfiction of All Time. She has taught at Princeton, Emory, and Boston Universities and has lectured at more than two hundred other colleges and universities across the United States and in Europe and Asia.

 

詳細資料

  • ISBN:9780593230251
  • 規格:精裝 / 400頁 / 23.5 x 15.57 x 2.54 cm / 普通級 / 初版
  • 出版地:美國
 

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