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Isabel Wilkerson

“Society builds a trapdoor of self-reference that, without any effort on the part of people in the dominant caste, unwittingly forces on them a narcissistic isolation from those assigned to lower categories. It replicates the structure of narcissistic family systems, the interplay of competing supporting roles—the golden-child middle castes of so-called model minorities, the lost-child indigenous peoples, and the scapegoat caste at the bottom.”

Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
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