Breakfast Club: "Caste" Session 1

is a masterwork of writing — a profound achievement of scholarship and research that stands also as a triumph of both visceral storytelling and cogent analysis...Wilkerson's central thesis is that caste, while a global occurrence, achieves its most violent manifestation in the treatment of American Blacks, set at the lowest level in society through historical and contemporary oppression, marginalization and violence — all legally maintained through systems of law and order." — "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents NPR

The Breakfast Club is dedicating two sessions to "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" by Isabel Wilkerson. Join us for Session 1 as we discuss Parts One-Three of the text and Wilkerson's thesis connecting racism and casteism throughout American history and in current structures and systems.

Session 1 Reading:

Part One: Toxins in the Permafrost and Heat Rising All Around

Part Two: The Arbitrary Construction of Human Divisions

Part Three: The…