“As a social and human division,” wrote the political scientist Andrew Hacker of the use of physical traits to form human categories, “it surpasses all others—even gender—in intensity and subordination.”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
“Throughout human history, three caste systems have stood out. The tragically accelerated, chilling, and officially vanquished caste system of Nazi Germany. The lingering, millennia-long caste system of India. And the shape-shifting, unspoken, race-based caste pyramid in the United States.”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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